log4j - DailyRollingFileAppender - Deleting 14 day old files automatically

[RajeshK Joshi]

Hi,
//----- property file snippet
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log4j.appender.rollingFile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.rollingFile.File=mylog
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..
//-----------------------------
I am using DailyRollingFileAppender which works fine.. Is there any 'property' that can be set so that files older than x days are removed automatically?
I cannot use RollingFileAppender which would have done the job for me..

[Annu Vinayak]

I need the same functionality. Is there no other way except writing code for deleting the files?

[Martijn Verburg]

You'll need to write your own functionality yes.

[Annu Vinayak]

Thanks for your reply. I already found a very nice article which helped me to resolve this issue. Please refer the following for this:

http://blog.justtechnologies.ca/2008/07/improving-log4j-dailyrollingfileappende.html

[Tanzy Akhtar]

Thanks Annu, for giving such a useful link..

[Arun GopalakrishanaPillai Chandrikamma]

Hi Anuu
The link you provided is break can you please help me to solve the same issue i am facing

Arun

[Paul Clapham]

Instead of trying to modify the appender so that it deletes old files, why don't you just write a separate piece of code which you run daily? Since the java.io.File class contains methods for getting all files in a directory and finding out when they were last changed, it's very easy to write something which deletes all files in a directory which are more than X days old.