Con Kafka 0.8.1.1, ¿cómo cambio el tiempo de retención del registro mientras se está ejecutando? losdocumentación dice que la propiedad eslog.retention.hours, pero tratando de cambiarlo usandokafka-topics.sh devuelve este error

$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk.yoursite.com --alter --topic as-access --config topic.log.retention.hours=24
Error while executing topic command requirement failed: Unknown configuration "topic.log.retention.hours".
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requirement failed: Unknown configuration "topic.log.retention.hours".
    at scala.Predef$.require(Predef.scala:145)
    at kafka.log.LogConfig$anonfun$validateNames$1.apply(LogConfig.scala:138)
    at kafka.log.LogConfig$anonfun$validateNames$1.apply(LogConfig.scala:137)
    at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:631)
    at scala.collection.JavaConversions$JEnumerationWrapper.foreach(JavaConversions.scala:479)
    at kafka.log.LogConfig$.validateNames(LogConfig.scala:137)
    at kafka.log.LogConfig$.validate(LogConfig.scala:145)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.parseTopicConfigsToBeAdded(TopicCommand.scala:171)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$anonfun$alterTopic$1.apply(TopicCommand.scala:95)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$anonfun$alterTopic$1.apply(TopicCommand.scala:93)
    at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:57)
    at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:43)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.alterTopic(TopicCommand.scala:93)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:52)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)