Here is the result of "ps -aef | grep java"
timmy15563 1 0 Jan08 pts/100:05:38
/home/timmy/jdk1.6.0_18/bin/java
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/conf/logging.properties
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/endorsed
-classpath
/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/bin/bootstrap.jar:/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
-Dcatalina.base=/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5
-Dcatalina.home=/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/temp
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
timmy17144 17080 0 01:32 pts/200:00:00 grep java
It looks like all the correct info to me. I modify the
/home/timmy/apache-tomcat-7.0.5/conf/logging.properties
but there is no effect with the catalina.out log...
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 16:12:15 +
> From: p...@pidster.com
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Tomcat 6 logging clog
>
> On 1/8/11 7:10 AM, Tim Space wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > As advised I removed every version of tomcat on my system. There were two
> > or three others besides the version I was running:
> > /usr/share/java/tomcat5
> > /etc/tomcat5
> > /var/lib/tomcat5
> > I have always started Tomcat with the sh startup.sh script, in my home
> > directory, with CATALINA_HOME set to that Tomcat, and my webapps in that
> > versions webapps directory. When I used Tomcat 5.5 (not these copies) in
> > my home directory, there was no problems with the logs, the problems only
> > started after moving to Tomcat 6.0.02. So that wasn't the problem.
> > Anyhow, I took Chucks advice and moved to the latest version
> > apache-tomcat-7.0.5. Thing works fine out of the box. Webapp runs, and
> > the new catalina.out is 42MBs, better than 50MBs, but still clogged. Here
> > is a sample of some of log entries:
> >
> > line 43 Jan 8, 2011 6:29:10 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester
> > characters
> > ... all Digester logs
> > line 900623 Jan 8, 2011 6:32:41 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.file.Matcher
> > tokenizePathAsArray
> > FINER: Tokenizing path [ant.jar]
> > ... all Matcher logs
> > line 521583 Jan 8, 2011 6:38:11 AM
> > org.apache.jasper.compiler.SmapUtil$SDEInstaller addSDE
> > FINE: constant pool count: 378
> >
> > FINE: 160 read class attr -- 'SourceFile'
> > Jan 8, 2011 6:38:58 AM org.apache.jasper.compiler.SmapUtil$SDEInstaller
> > copyConstantPool
> >
> > Jan 8, 2011 6:38:58 AM org.apache.jasper.compiler.SmapUtil$SDEInstaller
> > copyMembers
> > FINE: member attr count: 2
> > ...
> > Jan 8, 2011 6:39:00 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper allocate
> > FINER: Returning non-STM instance
> > ...
> >
> > line 934632 Jan 8, 2011 6:41:03 AM
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
> > INFO: IntegratedTestResultAction.perform for -5519451928541341468
> > (<- This is the line where my webapp log starts.)
> >
> >
> > Here is the properties file settings that the distribution come with:
> >
> > 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
> > 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
> > 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina.
> >
> > 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
> > 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
> > 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost.
> >
> > 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
> > 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
> > 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = manager.
> >
> > 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
> > 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
> > 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = host-manager.
> >
> > java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINE
> > java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter =
> > java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
> >
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = INFO
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers =
> > 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
> >
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].level
> > = INFO
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].handlers
> > = 3manager.org.apache.juli.File