topic limit the size of log files in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/limit-the-size-of-log-files/m-p/281005#M234135 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wanted to limit the size of log files,because it eats up too much disk space.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>And is it correct that insturction ?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>"param name="MaxFileSize" value="1024KB"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:08:51 GMT midoscofield 2013-08-26T16:08:51Z limit the size of log files https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/limit-the-size-of-log-files/m-p/281005#M234135 Hello,I wanted to limit the size of log files,because it eats up too much disk space.And is it correct that insturction ?"param name="MaxFileSize" value="1024KB"Thanks Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:08:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/limit-the-size-of-log-files/m-p/281005#M234135 midoscofield 2013-08-26T16:08:51Z Re: limit the size of log files https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/limit-the-size-of-log-files/m-p/281006#M234136 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>since Alfresco uses log4j for logging, you have some choices.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This solution gives you the opportunity to limit the file size and to decide the number of backup files.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB<BR /># Keep one backup file<BR />log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=1<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Personally I prefer the DailyRollingFileAppender that rolls each day on a new file</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE># LOG4J daily rolling log files configuration<BR />log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, RollingAppender<BR />log4j.appender.RollingAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender<BR />log4j.appender.RollingAppender.File=app.log<BR />log4j.appender.RollingAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd<BR />log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout<BR />log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] %d %c %M - %m%n<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can chack log4j page for more info at </SPAN><A href="http://logging.apache.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://logging.apache.org/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Andrea</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:03:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/limit-the-size-of-log-files/m-p/281006#M234136 abarisone 2013-09-06T15:03:32Z