On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:39 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
André, You expressed the very reason I was trying to turn off log rotation in Tomcat. I didn't want to write custom log handling for those specific logs. That's not possible with the version I'm using, but I agree with you coming from a systems perspective. -- -Vye --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
