Skip,
Agreed. I usually redirect console.log to dev null (discard).
Log4J in OFBiz does capture output in rotated logs, so the console.log is just extra. Moreover,
debug messages shouldn't be done with System.out.println.
Jonathon
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Vince
It is my view that a production server of any sort should never redirect stdout
and stderr to a log file because you have no control over it. If you want
stdout and stderr, it's fairly simple in java to catch it and write it to a
rotating log file. In Ofbiz's case, not everything that goes to stdout and
stderr is written to ofbiz.log, but everything of importance is (in my limited
experience). console.log is only useful in my view during developement.
Skip
-----Original Message-----
From: Vince M. Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:58 PM
To: user
Subject: managing the size of console.log
There are two startup options in startofbiz.sh
# start ofbiz
$JAVA $VMARGS -jar ofbiz.jar $* >>$OFBIZ_LOG 2>>$OFBIZ_LOG&
#exec "$JAVA" $VMARGS -jar ofbiz.jar "$@"
We are using the first option, which logs everything to console.log. This appears to be redundant with ofbiz.log. console.log is not rotated, so it gets very large.
Should we use the first option and send everything to /dev/null?
Vince Clark
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