[logback-user] What is the unit of maxHistory of TimeBasedRollingPolicy , day or month????

[Jeff Jensen]

Glad we finally made it clear... :-)

How could Ceki improve the doc language to have made it clearer to you right
away?


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:59 PM, zuxiong lin <linzuxiong1988 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you very much!
> Now , I understand by your clearly comment when I have read it again.
> Forgive me because of English !
>
>
> 2011/9/15 Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org>
>
>> > Do you read the mail title??????????
>>
>> Do you read the docs and try to understand replies given to you?
>>
>>
>>
>> > The number is for day. Or it is for month????
>>
>> It depends on the value of *fileNamePattern*; if set for monthly
>> rollover, it's monthly.  If daily rollover, it's daily.  So "It's always
>> the number of elapsed periods."  and "Neither, it's the max number of files
>> kept." accurately answer your question.
>>
>> You need to read the doc here:
>> " The optional maxHistory property controls the maximum number of archive
>> files to keep, deleting older files.* For example, if you specify monthly
>> rollover, and set maxHistory to 6, then 6 months worth of archives files
>> will be kept* with files older than 6 months deleted. Note as old
>> archived log files are removed, any folders which were created for the
>> purpose of log file archiving will be removed as appropriate. "
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:41 AM, zuxiong lin <linzuxiong1988 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The number is for day. Or it is for month????
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/9/15 Ceki Gülcü <ceki at qos.ch>
>>>
>>>> It's always the number of elapsed periods.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 14/09/2011 7:20 PM, Daniel Serodio (lists) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Neither, it's the max number of files kept.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Daniel Serodio
>>>>>
>>>>> zuxiong lin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ref : http://logback.qos.ch/manual/**appenders.html<http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a bit confused.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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