Log4j daily rotation and monthly retention with any file appender

Question

Is it possible with any of the log4j appenders to write the logs with specific rotation time and retention limit.
The goal would be:

• to have a log file for each day; create a new file at midnight for the new logs
• to keep the log files and delete them automatically after a certain amount of time; so delete log files older than X days (e.g. 30 days)

It seem that the rotation is possible but the limit of the retention time is not possible with log4j

The log4j version is 1.2.

Answer 1

Most of the answers are based on logback. But the question is about log4j 1.2 (old...)

the answer mentioning DailyRollingFileAppender will not work either. org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender does not support the MaxBackupIndex property see http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender.html (this is for RollingFileAppender )

you may be interested in : Use MaxBackupIndex in DailyRollingFileAppender -log4j

and for a possible answer : Log4j Rollingpolicy and MaxbackupIndex

But you should probably use the slf4j log4j "emulation" (http://www.slf4j.org/legacy.html#log4j-over-slf4j) and route your log through logback (without any code change) where it's far easier to implements.