Howdy, That's why the Logger elements supports anything you want in its "directory" attribute. I don't think this patch is strictly necessary and I'd prefer to keep the startup scripts as simple as possible. What does this patch give you that you can't already do?
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Thorsten Huber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:47 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PATCH] CATALINA_LOGDIR environment variable in catalina.sh > >Our Tomcat setup requires that the log files Tomcat generates reside >outside CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME. So I've defined a new >environment variable in catalina.sh named CATALINA_LOGDIR. With this >it is easier to set up different Tomcat installations with different >log directories. > >If I'm not the only one who has this problem, it would be great if >this change gets included into the next Tomcat release, so we don't >have to patch our Tomcat installations on future upgrades. > >I've attached a patch against Tomcat 4.1.24 > >best regards >Thorsten Huber > >--- catalina.sh.orig Thu Jul 3 13:34:01 2003 >+++ catalina.sh Thu Jul 3 14:36:28 2003 >@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ > # the JVM should use (java.io.tmpdir). Defaults to > # $CATALINA_BASE/temp. > # >+# CATALINA_LOGDIR (Optional) Directory path location of log directory >for >+# catalina.out >+# > # JAVA_HOME Must point at your Java Development Kit installation. > # > # JAVA_OPTS (Optional) Java runtime options used when the "start", >@@ -98,6 +101,11 @@ > CATALINA_TMPDIR="$CATALINA_BASE"/temp > fi > >+if [ -z "CATALINA_LOGDIR" ] ; then >+ # Define the default log directory >+ CATALINA_LOGDIR="$CATALINA_BASE"/logs >+fi >+ > # For Cygwin, switch paths to Windows format before running java > if $cygwin; then > JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --path --windows "$JAVA_HOME"` >@@ -113,6 +121,7 @@ > echo "Using CATALINA_BASE: $CATALINA_BASE" > echo "Using CATALINA_HOME: $CATALINA_HOME" > echo "Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: $CATALINA_TMPDIR" >+echo "Using CATALINA_LOGDIR: $CATALINA_LOGDIR" > echo "Using JAVA_HOME: $JAVA_HOME" > > if [ "$1" = "jpda" ] ; then >@@ -191,7 +200,7 @@ > elif [ "$1" = "start" ] ; then > > shift >- touch "$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out >+ touch "$CATALINA_LOGDIR"/catalina.out > if [ "$1" = "-security" ] ; then > echo "Using Security Manager" > shift >@@ -203,7 +212,7 @@ > -Dcatalina.home="$CATALINA_HOME" \ > -Djava.io.tmpdir="$CATALINA_TMPDIR" \ > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \ >- >> "$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 & >+ >> "$CATALINA_LOGDIR"/catalina.out 2>&1 & > > if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then > echo $! > $CATALINA_PID >@@ -215,7 +224,7 @@ > -Dcatalina.home="$CATALINA_HOME" \ > -Djava.io.tmpdir="$CATALINA_TMPDIR" \ > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \ >- >> "$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 & >+ >> "$CATALINA_LOGDIR"/catalina.out 2>&1 & > > if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then > echo $! > $CATALINA_PID > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
