Logging - cleaning up older log folders

[karan malhi <ka...@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

Regarding logging, each time i run the test, it creates a folder 
(timestamped) under test/target. Is there a limit to these folders? Does 
maven have a goal for cleaning up the existing folders. For example, can 
i do something like telling maven that i just want the last 10 log 
files, any older ones should be cleaned up. I think that the 
RollingFileAppender in Log4j is an option where it would create backups 
of existing log files, but i can still tell log4j to maintain x number 
of backups.

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Karan Singh

Re: Logging - cleaning up older log folders

[Michael Bouschen <mb...@spree.de>]

Hi Karan,

as far as I know there is no such limit, other than available space on 
your disk :-). Calling 'maven clean' removes the entire target 
directory, so all the log directories will be gone. Please note, it also 
removes all the class files and the installed schema.

Regards Michael

> Hi Michael,
> 
> Regarding logging, each time i run the test, it creates a folder 
> (timestamped) under test/target. Is there a limit to these folders? Does 
> maven have a goal for cleaning up the existing folders. For example, can 
> i do something like telling maven that i just want the last 10 log 
> files, any older ones should be cleaned up. I think that the 
> RollingFileAppender in Log4j is an option where it would create backups 
> of existing log files, but i can still tell log4j to maintain x number 
> of backups.
> 


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