stop log files getting reinitialized?

[Miller, Andy]

Is there anyway to stop tomcat from re-initializing output logs after a
restart?  It's a real pain not being able to just type "tail -f
stdout.log" and leave that window open.  What happens is that after
stopping tomcat, the file gets reset to 0bytes and after starting it
again, nothing is displayed in my tail window.  I have to close it an
open it again, by which time all the pertinent output log has streamed
by.  
 
Surely others have found a workaround????
 
Thanks
 
Andy Miller
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