From what I've seen out there... small biz to large enterprises is that for System Admins, they see deleting logfiles as part of a global task that they generally set-up as part most large-scale enterprise systems. They prefer to have one point that manages all historical data, archiving, etc. and do not really appreciate when a process deletes its logfiles. Specifically, we have customers who maintain logs for 3 days and some even up to 30 days, and some that archive old logs for compliance/audit purposes.
So... while I agree that a listener interface that one can register for log rotation would be nice, IMHO most large-scale uses of Log4CXX would not be able to use that to delete log file... Regards, Renny Koshy Conway Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/16/2008 09:19 AM Please respond to "Log4CXX User" <log4cxx-user@logging.apache.org> To Log4CXX User <log4cxx-user@logging.apache.org> cc Subject RE: How to config log4cxx to delete the log files periodically I suppose that if it were possible to define a callback that would be invoked when a roll-over takes place it would be possible to do the kind of housekeeping he wants without needing to use the crontab… regards, Allen. From: Dale King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 4:20 PM To: Log4CXX User Subject: Re: How to config log4cxx to delete the log files periodically Log4Cxx does not have this capability. It only lets you specify a max number of files when using the size based rolling policy. This is not an arbitrary decision. There is no good way to accomplish what you want. How is log4cxx supposed to know what files it can delete? Log4cxx maintains no history of what files it has created in the past. I suggest you create a daily job that deletes log files that are more than 31 days old based on creation date. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Jathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anybody has any idea about the below question? Waiting online... Jathy wrote: > > Hi All, > > In my project, I need produce one log file per day and delete the log > files periodically so that at most 31 files are stored. I used > DailyRollingFileAppender, it helped me to reach my first goal easily. But > how to config it to delete the log files automatically? Thanks. > > Regard, > Jathy > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-config-log4cxx-to-delete-the-log-files-periodically-tp19448819p19450427.html Sent from the Log4cxx - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Dale King Ce message et les pièces jointes sont confidentiels et réservés à l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut également être protégé par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir immédiatement l'expéditeur et de le détruire. L'intégrité du message ne pouvant être assurée sur Internet, la responsabilité du groupe Atos Origin ne pourra être recherchée quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'expéditeur ne donne aucune garantie à cet égard et sa responsabilité ne saurait être recherchée pour tout dommage résultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Atos Origin group liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.
