Sunday, March 25, 2012

Remove log files created by log4j

Add following code segment to configure file in log4j.

log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.R.File=example.log
log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB
log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=7
log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n
MaxBackupIndex will hold maximum number of 7 files in the location that files are created.