well, it was the maxbackupindex that was what I was trying to find out. We already are in the process of deleting the files which are older than a certain time period...
thanks, Vivek. On 8/22/07, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vivek, > > Vivek Mohan wrote: > > Is there a way to delete tomcat logs which are "older" than 5 days? > > You could configure Tomcat to use log4j instead of juli and use a > DailyRollingFileAppender -- it will generate a new file every day and > you can simply delete the ones that are several days behind whenever you > want. > > (Unfortunately, DailyRollingFileAppender doesn't inherit from > RollingFileAppender which includes a "max backup index" setting and will > automatically clean up after old log files). > > - -chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGzIF19CaO5/Lv0PARAg39AKDCPdqZuNlmqfsZDvVhbwDacsnU1ACdEY82 > frNhYK+LhiH/3tkH1zAQZwE= > =DVAL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
