Ditto if you're looking for a universal rotator(independent of the log vendor
source)
suggest Implementing some sort flavor of cron job to do the rotating..such as
http://www.interhack.net/projects/rotatelog/
M-
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> catalina.out is the redirected output of tomcat -- not a product of
> log4j or commons-logging. As such you're best bet is to have a cron job
> stop tomcat, rename the file and then restart it at say 6:00am when the
> internet hits the lowest ebb of demand. That method should be safe for
> all OS's.
>
> Unix/Linux seem to handle the sudden disappearance of a file well (or at
> least better than Windows) and simply create a new one. Just renaming
> the file without stop/start may be an option for you on *nix systems.
>
> --David
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> Mirou, Antoine wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>What is the easiest way to do a log rotation with tomcat ?
>>
>>For example, I'd like to rotate catalina.out on a daily basis and have up to
>>5 versions kept. How can I do it ?
>>
>>Antoine Mirou
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