I just knocked up this script for you. Add a cron job to run this at
midnight:
#!/bin/bash
# Path to catalina logs directory
CATALINA_LOG_DIR=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/logs
# Today's data
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
# Create backup of catalina.out
cat $CATALINA_LOG_DIR/catalina.out > $CATALINA_LOG_DIR/catalina.out.$DATE
# Wipe catalina.out clean
> $CATALINA_LOG_DIR/catalina.out
David Smith wrote:
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
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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