Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Received: (qmail 12476 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2002 06:19:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:28:58 -0800 From: Kevin Steppe Subject: Re: RollingFileAppender and DailyRollingFileAppender To: Log4J Users List Reply-To: ksteppe@pacbell.net Message-id: <3CA2B82A.5C366593@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_TnKsnil+d0oYB9TV0P+fgA)" X-Accept-Language: en References: <8DAB344CC3F3FE42A51FA1A8E295F8682ACD14@tepg-server2.tepgsyd.tycoint.com.au> X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N I wrote a CompositeRollingAppender last August to do that. I'm attaching that code and some example config files to you separately. Ceki... Could you please put these files in the log4j/contribs/KevinSteppe folder of the available releases? This seems to be coming up occasionally and it would be more convenient to just point people there. Thanks, Kevin Janusz Dalecki wrote: > Is there a way of having the mixture of both RollingFileAppender and > DailyRollingFileAppender options?. I have a requirement to log daily and > delete old files weekly. > Thanks, > Janusz > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > For additional commands, e-mail: #Config file for CompositeRollingAppender #This is an example config to use CompositeRollingAppender in Size based Backups only log4j.rootCategory=debug, R log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.CompositeRollingAppender #How to perform rolling -- 1 = By Size #Note -- this is the only difference from RollingFileAppender! log4j.appender.R.RollingStyle=1 #file to log to log4j.appender.R.File=example.log #Size Rolling params log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB log4j.appender.R.MaxSizeRollBackups=10 #layout options log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n #Config file for CompositeRollingAppender #This is an example config to use CompositeRollingAppender in Time based Backups only log4j.rootCategory=debug, R log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.CompositeRollingAppender #How to perform rolling -- 2 = By Time #Note -- this is the only difference from DailyRollingFileAppender! log4j.appender.R.RollingStyle=2 #file to log to log4j.appender.R.File=example.log #Date Rolling params log4j.appender.R.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd #layout options log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n #Default Config file for CompositeRollingAppender log4j.rootCategory=debug, R log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.CompositeRollingAppender #How to perform rolling -- Composite is the default log4j.appender.R.RollingStyle=3 #Use same file name for all inprocess logging? log4j.appender.R.staticLogFileName=true log4j.appender.R.File=example.log #Size Rolling params log4j.appender.R.CountDirection=-1 log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=5KB log4j.appender.R.MaxSizeRollBackups=10 #Date Rolling params log4j.appender.R.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd #layout options log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n