One option (hacky workaround) is to try using "swallowOutput" which may mitigate the worst of your issue. (Beyond a rewrite with a logging framework)
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/context.html -Tim On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 3:28 PM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com> wrote: > We need to shrink the size of catalina.out but looking at the logging > documentation I do not see any way to do this with the standard > logging.properties (or else where). Due to the nature of the > production site we never bring it completely down unless we must (life > critical 24/7/365) > > Specifically we have a fair number of System.out.println's with > debugging information to it and we dumb stack traces into it also. > And without stopping and restarting tomcat we want to make it so there > is periodic rotation of catalina.out to some other file? (note stack > traces do go to the dated one but not the System.out.println's) > >
