I had read that thread and I share your frustration. And I'm a developer : ) I believe that admlog does the same thing for solaris. We will try to set that up in one of our boxes.
thanks PS: andre, are you brazilian too? :) 2008/10/21 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > emerson cargnin wrote: >> >> Hi again... >> >> Has anyone here used Logadm to implement rotation on the catalina.out? >> http://www.softpanorama.org/Logs/log_rotation_in_solaris.shtml >> >> I know i can rotate a log file configure via log4j, but that is >> useless if catalina.out continues receiving everything. Eliminating >> catalina.out is not an option as well as there are still too many >> system.out messages. >> > Hi. > I have been battling with these logging issues in Tomcat for a while too, > see the thread entitled "Appeal to Tomcat developers". > > The following is more of a hack than a clean solution, but if you cannot get > rid of catalina.out, and you can't rotate it, look at the way it is done in > the attached startup script for Tomcat 5.5, part of that package for Linux > Debian. I have a feeling the Debian packager had the same issue, and found > this as a solution. > > Look at lines 132-140, and then at lines 142-156. > > I have not really analysed in detail yet, but what seems to happen there is > : > - delete catalina.out > - make catalina.out be a "fifo", with appropriate permissions > - start "rotatelogs" (a utility created for that purpose), taking as input > the catalina.out fifo > - start Tomcat (which will write to catalina.out) > > Thus, everything Tomcat writes to catalina.out will go as input to > rotatelogs, which will rotate this according to how you set it up, and write > it where you want. > > Hope this helps. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
