Redhat uses logrotate to rotate catalina.out. /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat5
has this:
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out {
copytruncate
weekly
rotate 52
compress
missingok
}
- Dave
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:19:56PM +0100, emerson cargnin wrote:
> 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 Andr? 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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