Hi everybody, Thanks a lot for your help. I tried both the DailyRollingFileAppenderExt (thanks to Sara Prigge) and the DateFileAppender (thanks to Jon Skeet). The disadvantage of the former is that under Windows it does not support directory separators (the latter does): If I use slashes it throws an IOException, if I use backslashes it creates a file named like the entire path without separators. So you can only use it in the current directory. I haven't tried Linux yet. Its advantage, though, is its method setMaxLogs(..), which sets the maximum number of backup-logs you want.
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