How to configure Log4Net to Delete logs by date

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    <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
      <file value="logs\" />
      <appendToFile value="true" />
      <rollingStyle value="Date" />
      <maxSizeRollBackups value="30" />
      <datePattern value="yyyy-MM-dd'.txt'" />
      <staticLogFileName value="false" />
     <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm} %-5level %message%newline%exception" />
  </layout>
  <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />
</appender>

maximum number of backup files when rolling on date/time boundaries is not supporting.can anyone please me

possible duplicate of [Log4Net: set Max backup files on RollingFileAppender with rolling Date](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95286/log4net-set-max-backup-files-on-rollingfileappender-with-rolling-date) — Iswanto San, May 10 '15 at 06:26
i tried but log files are not deleted when using rolling Style by date — user202, May 10 '15 at 06:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '15 at 09:16

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You can't out of the box, however you can implement your custom appender behavoir by inheriting the RollingFileAppender or SkeletonAppender.

answered May 10 '15 at 09:16

Peter

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could you please give example – user202 May 11 '15 at 03:07
As sample can you use: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4net/trunk/src/log4net/Appender/RollingFileAppender.cs?view=markup – Peter May 11 '15 at 08:42
@Peter The link is dead. – mslissap Sep 14 '16 at 12:24
They moved their code to github: https://github.com/apache/log4net/blob/trunk/src/Appender/RollingFileAppender.cs – tomfroehle May 03 '17 at 14:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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You can't.

CAUTION

A maximum number of backup files when rolling on date/time boundaries is not supported.

For more Info see THIS

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered May 11 '15 at 12:08

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How to configure Log4Net to Delete logs by date

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