Hi Konstatin, thanks for the explanation.
> 2013/10/25 Web2 Solutions <m...@web2-solutions.com>: > > Hallo All, > > > > I've installed tomcat 7.0.42 and due heavy use my catalina.out and > > localhost_access-jjj-mm-dd.txt grows quit big. > > > > I've successfully configured logrotate to rotate both files. I've removed > > the date from the access log. > > So Tomcat now writes without rotating into localhost_access.txt > > > > Logrotate now create a new file (localhost_access-dd-mm-dd.txt) and makes > > localhost_access.txt empty. > > But tomcat now writes into the new localhost_access-dd-mm-dd.txt instead of > > the configured file (localhost_access.txt). > > FYI: > You can configure the filename pattern so that it rotates more frequently, > e.g. every hour or every ten minutes. > Ok, but splitting the file is of no help since I want to use log rotate for that. Once tomcat splits them logrotate is of no help. > > What do I have todo so that tomcat continues to write into > > localhost_access.txt even after rotating? > > Renaming the file is futile, because Tomcat (for access logs) or the > shell (for catalina.out) > has the file open and continues to write to it, regardless of the file name. > Ok, got that. I could see it though not understand. Thx. So what can I do to unlink it from the new file and link it back to its original (empty) file) > You can use copytruncate option of logrotate. > > FYI: catalina.out is not a proper log file, but a redirection of > stdout (as managed in catalina.sh script that launches Tomcat java > process). If a system is configured properly, this file is usually > empty. Well, Microstrategy manages to generate some entries here. For testing I was also wondering how I can make tomcat to write into it. 1000 lines per minute for example. > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko Thx, Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
