pfff занял у меня какое-то время, но я заработал ... Не так много информации о программно меняющихся приложениях log4j2 здесь, так что это мое решение:
LoggerContext ctx = (LoggerContext) LogManager.getContext(false);
Configuration config = ctx.getConfiguration();
PathCondition[] pathConditions = new PathCondition[1];
pathConditions[0] = IfAccumulatedFileCount.createFileCountCondition(Integer.parseInt(expire));
DeleteAction action = DeleteAction.createDeleteAction("C:\\logs\\BuddyServer\\", true, 1, false, null, pathConditions, null, config);
Action[] actions = new Action[1];
actions[0] = action;
DefaultRolloverStrategy strategy = DefaultRolloverStrategy.newBuilder()
.withMax(expire)
.withCustomActions(actions)
.withMin("1")
.withFileIndex("max")
.withConfig(config)
.withCompressionLevelStr(Deflater.NO_COMPRESSION + "")
.build();
PatternLayout layout = PatternLayout.newBuilder().withConfiguration(config)
.withPattern("%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%5p] %pid --- %-40.40logger{39} : %m%n%wEx")
.build();
RollingFileAppender appender = RollingFileAppender.newBuilder().setConfiguration(config)
.withName("TraceFileAppender")
.withLayout(layout)
.withFileName(file + ".log")
.withFilePattern(file + ".%d{yyyy-MM-ddHHmmSSS}.log")
.withPolicy(SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy.createPolicy(segment))
.withStrategy(strategy)
.build();
appender.start();
config.addAppender(appender);
LoggerConfig loggerConfig = config.getRootLogger();
loggerConfig.setLevel(Level.toLevel(buddyConfig.getOption("log", "verbose").toUpperCase()));
loggerConfig.addAppender(appender, null, null);