On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Felipe Jaekel wrote: > Thanks for the link. > > Searching a bit more I found this: > http://www.queuemetrics.com/manuals/QM_AdvancedConfig-chunked/ar01s17.html
Watch out when using "logrotate" with the "copytruncate" option, in some circumstances this can result in data loss. > > Simple to setup, but anyway it would be nice if Tomcat could do this out of > the box, since the server can crash if it runs out of disk space. Tomcat offers several ways to handle logging out-of-the-box, including the one you mentioned. I believe it's documented here. https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Logging Dan > > > 2013/3/5 Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@vmware.com> > >> On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Felipe Jaekel wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to limit log rotation to a specific number of days to avoid that >>> the logs folder keep growing indeterminately. >> >> Which log files are you referring to? Including the names would help. >> >>> >>> Tried to google about, people say to study Log4j or use crontab, >>> but isn't there an easier way like a *maxHistory* property? >> >> Tomcat's default logging mechanism will simply rotate files. It does not >> perform any cleanup or archival. >> >> If you want those features, you have two choices … >> >> 1.) Setup a cron job to cleanup or archive old log files. >> 2.) Use Tomcat's log4j support. Log4j supports cleanup and archival. >> >> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/logging.html#Using_Log4j >> >> There's probably other things you can do as well. Those are just the >> first two that popped into my head. >> >> Dan >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Phillip >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
