we have a project where it tries to rollover older files but it deletes the other files which shouldn’t be part of deletion as per the configuration.

we have a project where it tries to rollover older files but it deletes the other files which shouldn’t be part of deletion as per the configuration.

I have log4j2 xml configuration. Issue is that- log older than 1 day is not getting deleted. Log files are in same application root folder-

I have below log4j2 xml configurations. Issue is that – log files older than 1 day is not getting deleted. My log files are in same application root folder.
Can anyone please help me what is incorrect here.

I am modifying existing log4j2.properties file to log error into a separate file. My question is how can i REUSE SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy, TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy and DefaultRolloverStrategy for multiple fileappenders. I dont want to copy same stuff multiple times

ERROR StatusConsoleListener Could not create plugin of type class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender for element RollingFile: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ManagerFactory [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$RollingFileManagerFactory@e350b40] unable to create manager for [${sys:DC_LOG_DIR}/dc_vault_debug.log] with data [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$FactoryData@78e4deb0[pattern=${sys:DC_LOG_DIR}/archived/dc_vault_debug_%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.zip, append=false, bufferedIO=true, bufferSize=8192, policy=CompositeTriggeringPolicy(policies=[SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy(size=31457280)]), strategy=DefaultRolloverStrategy(min=1, max=7, useMax=true), advertiseURI=null, layout=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p – %c{1} – %m%n, filePermissions=null, fileOwner=null]]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ManagerFactory [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$RollingFileManagerFactory@e350b40] unable to create manager for [${sys:DC_LOG_DIR}/dc_vault_debug.log] with data [org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$FactoryData@78e4deb0[pattern=${sys:DC_LOG_DIR}/archived/dc_vault_debug_%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.zip, append=false, bufferedIO=true, bufferSize=8192, policy=CompositeTriggeringPolicy(policies=[SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy(size=31457280)]), strategy=DefaultRolloverStrategy(min=1, max=7, useMax=true), advertiseURI=null, layout=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p – %c{1} – %m%n, filePermissions=null, fileOwner=null]]

I’m trying to configure correctly log4j2 but it’s not working properly.

I have a log4j2.XML as below: