[jira] [Comment Edited] (LOG4J2-2121) DefaultRolloverStrategy max = 5 does not limit nuber of files

["Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki edited comment on LOG4J2-2121 at 11/16/17 2:25 PM:
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Thanks for asking.
No I have one log per day, but I need to limit overall number of days/logs.
I mean I prefer to avoid to write any kind of extra tool to purge old logs.
Of course when it is needed, I will do it, but I suppose Log4j2 has such a possibility.


was (Author: habdank):
No I have one log per day, but I need to limit overall number of days/logs.
I mean I prefer to avoid to write any kind of extra tool to purge old logs.
Of course when it is needed, I will do it, but I suppose Log4j2 has such a possibility.

> DefaultRolloverStrategy max = 5 does not limit nuber of files
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-2121
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2121
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Question
>         Environment: Linux RedHat
>            Reporter: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki
>
> Dears,
> I have very simple configuration of the RollingFile appender
> {code:xml}
> <RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="${env:LOG_DIR}/${application}/endpoint.log"
>     filePattern="$${env:LOG_DIR}/$${application}/$${date:yyyy-MM}/endpoint-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log">
>     <PatternLayout>
>         <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n</Pattern>
>     </PatternLayout>
>     <Policies>
>         <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
>     </Policies>
>     <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="5"/>
> </RollingFile>
> {code}
> This configuration works partly good. Every day there is created file in folder _YYYY-MM_.
> That is expected.
> What is not expected - it is that the process is not limited at all. I mean there are more than 5 files in all folders.
> Questions: 
> Is it something wrong with configuration?
> is max=5 considered to be the numeber of files or folders (in my case months)?
> or max=5 is ignored at all.
> I had read some hints in SO: [How does Log4j2 DefaultRolloverStrategy's max attribute really work?|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24551768/how-does-log4j2-defaultrolloverstrategys-max-attribute-really-work]
> Thanks in advance for help.



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