Mark H. Wood wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:32:22PM -0500, Daniel Mikusa wrote:
On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Vye <v...@vye.me> wrote:
I have been unsuccessfully trying to remove the date from catalina’s
log file name. My ultimate goal is to logrotate the file, which is
best done when the file name is static.
I’m curious, why are you trying to do this? The log files are being rotated
out-of-the-box. They rotate by date, hence why the date is part of the name.
Why do you need to rotate them with some other tool? What doesn’t work about
the out-of-the-box configuration?
I agree. logrotate is a very nice crutch for use when the application
doesn't rotate its own logs, but it is better to use the application's
rotation code when it exists, since the application (with full
knowledge of its internal state) can do this more safely and
efficiently than any external tool.
Cleaning up old log files is easily done with a simple cron job, if
the application does not trim old files. That operation can be done
just as well externally as internally.
A dissenting voice :
As a sysadmin in charge of many systems and different applications, it is very nice to be
able to use the *same* tool, same logic, same frequency, same archiving logic, same
configuration files etc. for handling the logs of all applications. One does not really
have time to investigate the details of the individual logic and configuration of logging
for each application, and write scripts to bring the errant ones back in line with the rest.
In that sense - and I repeat, in that sense - Tomcat's standard logging logic differs from
most of the rest, and this is a pain.
I am not discussing the fact that for developers of Tomcat-based applications, the current
out-of-the-box logging may be ideal and allow for all the control they want.
But from a non-java, non-Tomcat specialist sysadmin point of view, it is
definitely not ideal.
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