Glassfish Logging

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Is there anyway to get glassfish to delete some of the old log files automatically? Yesterday we had a disk full issue due to glassfish logging. There is not apparent way to do this in the Admin Console, unless we are just ignorant.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 30 '12 at 00:52

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You can get Glassfish to delete the log files, in the Log Rotate Manager: http://blogs.oracle.com/sirajg/entry/managing_rotated_log_files

edited Jul 30 '12 at 00:52

Bill the Lizard

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answered Apr 06 '09 at 14:22

Björn

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In case any one else comes across this, the link has changed to https://blogs.oracle.com/sirajg/entry/managing_rotated_log_files – dann.dev Jul 25 '12 at 22:11
is this available in glassfish open source edition ? – Kenshin Oct 09 '16 at 08:39

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '14 at 10:50

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In 3.1 the command is now (supposed default of 10 does not exist)

asadmin> set-log-attributes com.sun.enterprise.server.logging.GFFileHandler.maxHistoryFiles=10

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2416/gklmn.html#gkmai

answered Oct 20 '14 at 10:50

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Why has this been downvoted? Neither of the other answers work anymore! – JamesRyan Nov 10 '14 at 17:02
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Works in 2017. This should be the accepted answer today! – carlossierra Oct 05 '17 at 21:54

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '12 at 11:36

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If you cannot or do not want to install GlassFish Performance Advisor as suggested in the other answer, another way is described in https://wikis.oracle.com/display/GlassFish/FaqDeleteRotatedLogs:

The com.sun.enterprise.server.logging.max_history_files system property limits the number of rotated log files for both access logging and the server log

answered Nov 28 '12 at 11:36

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When I have tried this, I did not see any change (GlassFish 3.1.2.2) – Suma Nov 28 '12 at 15:00

Glassfish Logging

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