Jay wrote: > Hello > > As we are not providing any log4j configuration for individual web app, I > guess, Tomcat is directing all the log4j log messages in the code to > system.out which in turn is being written to catalina.out > > Agree that it may not be a good idea to direct log messages from all web apps > to a same log file. But, our requirement is that there should be a single > file. > Considering all these, is there a way to achieve rolling for catalina.out, > based on size ? on linux you can use logrotate http://threebit.net/mail-archive/tomcat-users/msg00444.html
> > Thanks > > --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> > Subject: RE: Logging configuration in Tomcat > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 6:41 PM > >> From: Jay [mailto:difficult...@yahoo.com] >> Subject: RE: Logging configuration in Tomcat >> >> There are many web apps. Log4j logger is used in all web apps >> & there are no system.out or system.err > > Then where is your catalina.out usage coming from? Tomcat does not itself put > anything in catalina.out; data in there appears only because the Tomcat > startup > script redirects System.out and System.err to that file. > >> If I configure log4j at each web app level using >> log4j.properties, am abile to achive log file rotation but, >> this requires one log file per web application. > > Which really, really is what you need. Lumping them all together will create > serious grief, as other posters have already pointed out. > >> What I am interested is one log file for all web apps > > A bad idea. You could just merge the log files after they've been > generated. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > -- Mark Shifman MD. Ph.D. Yale Center for Medical Informatics Phone (203)737-5219 mark.shif...@yale.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
