Mark, I've been using SLES 8, and now SLES 9 for over two years. Novell/SuSE's policy of patching the shipped version of Tomcat rather than upgrading probably works for some customers and provides a bit more stability to production installations. But it did not work well fo me either.
My solution was to get the standard, lastest Tomcat download (5.5.x) and install it. I did not follow the SLES9/Linus layout exactly, which typically sprays parts of Tomcat into different directories according to their type (i.e. "/var" for log files, etc.). I just untarred it into the home directory of a user that I wanted Tomcat to run as. I did create a symbolic link for the <TOMCAT_HOME>/logs directory to put it in an appropriate location in logs. Probably should have linked <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf under /etc also, but did not. So far this is no big deal. But you really want Tomcat to play well as a service with the rest of SLES9. My solution to this was to copy the following system files as follow: - /etc/init.d/tomcat to /etc/init.d/tc55 - /etc/sysconfig/j2ee to /etc/sysconfig/j2ee_tc55 Obviously I had to make some minor adjustments to the above files to reflect the new location of Tomcat 5.5.x, but it was pretty simple to do. There's also a command that you can run to create a "rctc55" link for /etc/init.d/tc55 in /usr/sbin - cannot remember it off the top of my head now. Hope this helps. If you want my modified files, you can email me off list and I will be glad to share them. - Richard -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark F Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:57 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Tomcat log to syslog I have installed Tomcat 5.0.19 on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3(SLES) If there is a newer version available for SLES could someone please let me know where to find it. As a relatively new user of SLES, poor package availability has been my only significant gripe. I would like to configure the logger to use syslog instead of the default logging mechanism for both application logs and system log (catalina.out) Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
