Hi Chris,
I honestly don't care if they are in catalina.out, /var/log/messages, or a file
named 'awesomestuff.log' - I just know that things are MISSING.
Let me be more specific - sorry if I'm not being clear here!
Normal operation (running via systemd) - I get Tomcat startup/shutdown, and
some other info in catalina-YYYY-MM-DD.log. I don't get the debug information
for opensaml.
When I start via startup.sh directly - a lot more is being logged to
catalina.out than anywhere else I have been able to find.
I tried starting Tomcat without using systemd by just doing the following - but
still no catalina.out.
/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \
-Dcatalina.home=${CATALINA_HOME} \
-Dcatalina.base=${CATALINA_BASE} \
-Djava.awt.headless=true \
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/logging.properties \
-Dlog4j2.FormatMsgNoLookups=true \
-cp
${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/bootstrap.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
\
-pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \
-java-home ${JAVA_HOME} \
-user tomcat \
$CATALINA_OPTS \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
I ended up temporarily just starting via startup.sh just long enough to get the
error logs I was looking for into catalina.out - then started it up again
normally.
Sorry to bother everyone with this - but I appreciate your assistance!
________________________________
From: Christopher Schultz <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 1:34 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Issue with catalina.out not being generated (RHEL 7.9, tomcat
9.0.63)
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Paul,
On 8/11/22 13:03, Paul Chauvet wrote:
> Hi Noelette,
>
> Thanks for the reponse!
>
> It logs to catalina-YYYY-MM-DD.log, localhost.YY-MM-DD.log,
> localhost_access_log.YYYY-MM-DD.txt - but it doesn't use catalina.out.
>
> When I temporarily started Tomcat via startup.sh it did create catalina.out
> (and start logging the things that it wasn't logging into the other files,
> /var/log/messages, or the systemd journal).
>
> I'll see if I can get my setup (at least temporarily) working with startup.sh.
OH... you might just be misunderstanding what's happening.
When you use catalina.sh start (or startup.sh), that script just does this:
java [stuff] > ${CATALINA_BASE}/logs/catalina.out 2>&1
When you run with jsvc, it includes some built-in file-rotation and so
catalina-[date].log is the same thing.
Are you irritated that you can't read the logs, or are you irritated
that the log file isn't specifically "catalina.out"?
-chris
> ________________________________
> From: Noelette Stout <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 12:35 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Issue with catalina.out not being generated (RHEL 7.9, tomcat
> 9.0.63)
>
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>
>
> We use systemd with jsvc and our tomcat instances write to
> $CATALINA_BASE/logs by default.
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:10 AM Paul Chauvet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I haven't been able to figure this out - but a catalina.out file is not
>> being generated for me. Sadly - I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue (with
>> a vendor's saml implementation) which wants to write to that file (and
>> doesn't seem to be writing what I need to catalina.YYYY-DD-MM.logs,
>> /var/log/messages, or into the journal as seen by "journalctl
>> --unit=tomcat.service").
>>
>>
>> My environment:
>>
>> * RHEL 7.9 (though the same happens on my RHEL 8 hosts)
>> * Tomcat 9.0.63 (installed from the .tar.gz download from
>> https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi - not from the OS repository)
>> * Using jsvc via a systemd startup script to start Tomcat (that script
>> is at the bottom of this message).
>>
>> I've tried specifying CATALINA_OUT in setenv.sh, and in my systemd startup
>> script. I've temporarily disabled SELinux to see if that makes a
>> difference. Neither of those work. What does work, though I would like to
>> avoid it, is if I start Tomcat via ./startup.sh. If I do that -
>> catalina.out is generated but I'm not getting other settings I set in my
>> systemd script (or having it tied to startup/shutdown of the OS).
>>
>> I don't know what I'm missing or doing wrong here, or if there's something
>> about jsvc that is an issue here that I can't figure out. I've been unable
>> to find anything related to this (lots of posts about catalina.out related
>> to operating system distributed versions of Tomcat that don't appear to
>> apply).
>>
>> Any advice here would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> My systemd startup script is below.
>>
>>
>> [Unit]
>> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
>> After=syslog.target network.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> Type=forking
>> PIDFile=/var/run/tomcat.pid
>> UMask=0007
>>
>> # Tomcat variables
>> Environment='JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk'
>> Environment='CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat.pid'
>> Environment='CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/latest'
>> Environment='CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/latest'
>> Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx2048M -XX:+UseParallelGC -server'
>> Environment='CATALINA_OUT=/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out'
>>
>> # Needed to make use of Tomcat Native Library
>> Environment='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/tomcat/latest/lib'
>>
>> ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \
>> -Dcatalina.home=${CATALINA_HOME} \
>> -Dcatalina.base=${CATALINA_BASE} \
>> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
>>
>> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
>>
>> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/logging.properties \
>> -Dlog4j2.FormatMsgNoLookups=true \
>> -cp
>> ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/bootstrap.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>> \
>> -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \
>> -java-home ${JAVA_HOME} \
>> -user tomcat \
>> $CATALINA_OPTS \
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>>
>> ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \
>> -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \
>> -stop \
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Chauvet, CISSP
>>
>> Information Security Officer
>>
>> State University of New York at New Paltz
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>
> --
> Noelette Stout
> ITS Enterprise Applications - Senior Application Administrator
> Idaho State University
> E-mail: stounoel "at" isu "dot" edu
> Desk: 208-282-2554
>
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