Thank so much for your detailed answers. Really appreciate your help. The changes you recommend here - Do I need to make these changes in logging.properties in conf folder, or log4j.xml?
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2014-02-10 5:53 GMT+04:00 Pooja Swamy <poojasw...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > I am on a bridge call in the middle of a critical Production issue, and I > > need some urgent help. I am using Tomcat 7.0.x, and my catalina.out file > is > > growing very fast. It is currently at 50 GB. I am frequently rotating the > > file, but no luck. > > Add > CATALINA_OUT=/dev/null > to your setenv.sh file? > A dirty trick, but might do if you are not reading those files anyway. > > > I have referred to multiple posts including the Tomcat > > reference library, and commented the ConsoleHandler from my list of > > handlers. > > Each web application can have its own logging library and its own > configuration of logging. > > Note that ConsoleHandler is still present in configuration that you cited > below. > > > However, there is no difference. Based on my observation, the > > file is filling up with INFO messages being written to the file. I see > > close to 10-12 such messages getting generated every second. I am not > sure > > where these messages are coming from as I don't have these in my > > application code. > > Try googling. If the software is opensource, the source is somewhere out > there. > > Try searching strings among class files in your jars. > > java.util.logging and Log4J usually provide some context, e.g. class > name that wrote the log message. > > > > So please need your urgent help with the below issues - Nothing more, no > > > > 1. What are these various messages written to catalina.out? > > Just something that something wrote to stdout or stderr. > Anything can write there. Nothing more, nothing less. > > > 2. Why are logging messages typically of log4j logging in catalina.out? > > Something is configured that way, > > > 3. What other messages are written to this file? > > No clue. > > > 4. How can I prevent the INFO messages from being written to catalina? > > Either do not generate them (level at logger in JULI, at category in > log4j), > or filter them before writing them out (level at handler in JULI, > level at appender in Log4J). > > Either way, you have first to figure what writes those messages and > what configuration file is responsible. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
