dateFile Appender daysToKeep not rolling by days #1035
Description
daysToKeep - integer (default 0) - if this value is greater than zero, then files older than that many days will be deleted during log rolling.
when the pattern is not .yyyy-MM-dd, the daysToKeep not work as doc says.
for example. when pattern is .yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm, the daysToKeep is not control the old log Rolling by days, just keep the logs backups not more than daysToKeep.
log4js.configure({
appenders: {
well: {
type: 'dateFile',
filename: logFileName,
pattern: '.yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm',
compress: true,
daysToKeep: 3
},
console: { type: 'console' }
},
categories: {
well: { appenders: [ 'well' ], level: 'debug'},
default: {appenders: ['console'], level: 'debug'}
}
})
log files
-rw-r--r-- 1 dd staff 855B Aug 1 14:59 well.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 dd staff 197B Aug 1 14:39 well.log.2020-08-01-14-38.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dd staff 323B Aug 1 14:45 well.log.2020-08-01-14-39.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 dd staff 140B Aug 1 14:59 well.log.2020-08-01-14-45.gz