limit the size of log files

[midoscofield]

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

[abarisone]

Hi,
since Alfresco uses log4j for logging, you have some choices.
This solution gives you the opportunity to limit the file size and to decide the number of backup files.

log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=100KB
# Keep one backup file
log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=1‍‍‍

Personally I prefer the DailyRollingFileAppender that rolls each day on a new file

# LOG4J daily rolling log files configuration
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, RollingAppender
log4j.appender.RollingAppender=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.RollingAppender.File=app.log
log4j.appender.RollingAppender.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.RollingAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] %d %c %M - %m%n‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You can chack log4j page for more info at http://logging.apache.org/

Regards,
Andrea