Does anyone know how to delete the Log files FOLDERS

Question

Ok so I have a patch that looks like below, it does a good job of deleting 2 day and older logs but however it just leaves the folder itself. I tried adding the section above which is bolded but it does not work. Any idea how to get rid of the dynamically generated folder. They have names like (log/RD0003FFA1230E and logs/RD0003FFA12729), but my script does delete all the logs inside those just not these folders.

   <scheduling>
     <agent type="Sitecore.Tasks.CleanupAgent">
       <files hint="raw:AddCommand">
         **<remove folder="$(dataFolder)/logs" pattern="*.*" maxAge="2.00:00:00"/>**
         <remove folder="$(dataFolder)/logs">
           <patch:attribute name="pattern">*log.*.tx*</patch:attribute>
           <patch:attribute name="maxAge">2.00:00:00</patch:attribute>
           <patch:attribute name="recursive">true</patch:attribute>
         </remove>

Answer 1

Here are two attributes you need to take care of for Sitecore.Tasks.CleanupAgent to delete the log files and folders -

• pattern = Use regex for deleting the files since you want to delete the folder then you need to pass the * as a wildcard. <patch:attribute name="pattern">*log.*.tx*</patch:attribute> will just delete files with matching pattern and pattern="*.*" will delete all the files but not folders.
• recursive = Use this attribute to delete files and folders on a deep level(recursively), generally we don't need to set this attribute if we are using the * wildcard value in the pattern but we had some issues in PaaS long time back where it work after set it's value to true.

try below configration to fix this issue -

 <remove folder="$(dataFolder)/logs">
       <patch:attribute name="pattern">*</patch:attribute>
       <patch:attribute name="maxAge">2.00:00:00</patch:attribute>
       <patch:attribute name="recursive">true</patch:attribute>
     </remove>