is there a way to set number of days the log files will backed up daily like 15 days or 30 days then over write the old files
org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender thanks in advance
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The files wouldn't get overwritten, since they all have different names. Do you mean deleting them after a certain period? I don't think there is a way to do this. You could roll your own by extending DailyRollingFileAppender, and add an additional parameter to that effect. Or create a background thread that cleans up periodically (I wouldn't delete log files, though, but zip then up and store them someplace else).
create a background thread that cleans up periodically (I wouldn't delete log files, though, but zip then up and store them someplace else). yes i mean to clean up the directory periodically . is there a way log4j does this or we need to write code for this ? thanks for the reply
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Cleaning up the directory has nothing to do with logging directly, and log4j will not help you there. You'll need to write some code that starts a thread which executes once a week or once a month, and which then deletes whatever files you want to get rid of.
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