FYI I created an RFE for this back in Feburary. There definitely needs to be a way to make this timeout shorter and make SiftingAppender clean up fds more aggressively.
http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-244 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ceki Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:13 AM To: logback users list Subject: Re: [logback-user] how to remove old log files in this sifting appender configuration On 17.07.2012 15:15, Andreas Kruthoff wrote: > On 07/11/2012 05:30 PM, ceki wrote: >> SiftingAppener cleans unused appenders after 30 minutes. > > Will you make it configurable in a future release of logback? I could > use such a feature. If there is demand for it, then yes. If you would be interested in such a feature please create a jira issue asking for it. SMTPAppender which shares similarities with SiftingAppender, will discard buffers when an a logging event with the marker "FINALIZE_SESSION" is encountered. See [1, 2]. So it would be quite easy to add functionality to immediately discard and appender upon an event determined by the developer. [1] http://tinyurl.com/cyh5mv9 [2] http://tinyurl.com/cho3g5k -- Ceki http://tinyurl.com/proLogback _______________________________________________ Logback-user mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user _______________________________________________ Logback-user mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user
