-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Kristof,
On 8/20/14, 7:51 AM, Kristof Can Bilen wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m running a Tomcat service on Windows and I’m having some minor > issues with the logging mechanism. I've been researching for weeks > now, read every FAQ, user forum and article but no one seems to > have any clue on this. > > I use 64-bit Tomcat 6.0.39 as a Windows service on Windows 2008 R2 > x64Standard. > > Tomcat keeps writing to the same stdout and stderr log files > without any log rotation until the service is restarted. Because of > this, the stdout and stderr log files become quite large in time > and it becomes difficult to open/read logs. My aim is to never > restart the Tomcat service until it isreally necessary, so this > makes log rotation quite crucial. > > The Tomcat process won’t release the log files until the Tomcat > service is restarted. I was unable to use 3rd party tools for > logrotation as stdout and stderr files are locked by the process. > > While this Tomcat log rotation is quite simple on Linux, there > seems to be no simple way to do it on Windows. I tried every > command to force JULI to rotate these two files based on size or > date but it was fruitless. I tried to force Log4j to take over the > logging mechanism but stdout and stderr still seem to act on their > own, probably due to Tomcat’s internal mechanisms. Btw webapp > application logs rotate just fine. > > Have you had any experience with stdout/stderr log rotation on > Windows Tomcat? If you have the time, it’d be great if you could > share yourthoughts.. IIRC, the Windows Service is basically procrun which can close and re-open the log files that it writes. ...don't ask me how to send a signal on Windows, though ;) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT9O7wAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYHCwQALIU+MpqdNWESbHnVEFZbh3C JplTtoofvSfPTH0mv+3xcsrCmYKbyV6zrCTpwDXVFqdIspLVIY2GhoADP9bUMJjN Wjf9nY7Pce0aaufgS5m49pQLyIrRXJr2QgyVN1C9NbVaS/hFkjnGcfb4HKuoqgvm VmNnBnKrcpFRs0Dad6V+Wr7xksm70Bx84Um4viIm6PcTnoL43f9KigOd2DdYiK1z 8q8dzseSr7A+rWSoqJC8DF+JpZMsptyZuXOUUI3AjH51Pc942oYSzke5qNc3/ChJ I57ywbmPXGm4GLK9tBYe/kXP3xwrutZwlDyQ7c8Et0wdLsAuTlUx94FGhBgntTMb PUZMQRMZy07NO3HOWCPalwCN1QpYnNN/c3mfTdMSraX2Ch+yHXkqVWDtG7Eyia39 eJtRpcoLufK35fhtd6NGNmWTNn4HzXqhjKiZRuF9vu9WNLdSpgdpBw4YWNkIUc0E mGoeesrvX5DHIcGkx8MPyfutsKHIOvjv1YR5WXox7SKtbpZhhtW4OPhmd3+gNQQZ Tjbw2RuwS0eNROXUEM+G9w+RMsBBUCfe9blpY8joWJQWsu1Rh3D7TwVfM8F+f3ym L4DYyMgmjD0dVMeum+xLlGZQ5LYgIjMZ4OSEUA/hr9khzFUgXNp2qY9Ye/mkwc4g SlM6cR0GqYcWSFaSCcro =xpsv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
