I want catalina.out to be rotate daily but Tomcat give me extra files (catalina.out.1.gz, catalina.out.2.gz...catalina.out.30.gz). I don't those extra files. Any chance to disable that?
On 21 April 2010 16:26, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > On 21/04/2010 09:07, Goo Sam Kong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using Log4j logging in Tomcat 5.5.16 with JDK 1.5.0 update 7 on > RedHat > > Linux server. > > > > I followed the instructions on > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html to copy the > > commons-logging-1.0.4.jar and log4j.jar into $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib > > directory. > > > > and created log4j.properties in $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes directory > as > > below: > > > > log4j.rootLogger=info, CATALINA > > log4j.appender.CATALINA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender > > log4j.appender.CATALINA.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd > > log4j.appender.CATALINA.File=${catalina.home}/logs/catalina.out > > log4j.appender.CATALINA.threshold=info > > log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > > log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d:%p %c{2} - %m%n > > > > After couple of days, I saw some catalina.out files suffix with ".x.gz", > > where x is number range from 1 to 30. May I know to get rid of these > files? > > > > I only want log4j to handle the file rotation as configured in > > log4j.properties. > > You've configured a DailyRollingFileAppender with DatePattern > DatePattern set to ".yyyy-MM-dd" so the log files are being rotated daily. > > What were you intending it to do? > > > p > > > > > Thank you. > > > > Regards, > > SamKong Goo > > > > >
