"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> You are correct on your guess ... Tomcat has no built-in limits on how big the
> log files will get. However, you have indirect control over this by what kinds
> of debugging detail you request in your logger configurations in server.xml.
>
> For Tomcat 3.x, all of the loggers simply append to the configured filenames, so
> you have to periodically shut down and restart Tomcat to replace the old logs
> with new empty ones. In Tomcat 4.0, all of the standard loggers include the
> current date in their filenames for you, and switch automatically on the first
> entry to that log file after each midnight.
>
> Craig McClanahan
Hi, Craig.
Thank you for providing me with the logging info. I had similar thoughts about
changing the verbosity level for logging, but I didn't know about Tomcat 4.0's
logging capability. This is exactly what I needed to know.
Thank you for your quick response!
- Julia Walker
