On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:48 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Jeff Kohut wrote: > >> I am running Tomcat 7.0.54 on a Windows 2008 R1 with SP1 platform. >> >> I would like to control the contents of what gets logged to the Tomcat >> localhost_access_log >> >> specifically , I would like to remove logging of entries like : >> >> 10.239.54.8 - - [13/Feb/2015:00:00:07 -0600] "GET /atb HTTP/1.0" 200 573 >> 10.239.58.29 - - [13/Feb/2015:00:00:08 -0600] "GET /atb HTTP/1.0" 200 561 >> >> > Naive question : why make it complicated and add overhead to your Tomcat > process in order to do that ? > Why not leaving the access log as it is, and use an external filtering > program as and when you need it ? > like > grep -v -e "^GET \/atb " access.log > clean_access.log > comes to mind.. > > Or, if you have several patterns to filter out : > grep -v -f file_with_patterns access.log > clean_access.log > > In addition, one might argue that this leaves in existence at least one > version of the access log which is really accurate, if you ever need it. > > I will consider your suggestion, as it does not look like I may have the > option to do what I originally would have preferred to do with built in > Tomcat functionality. Sorry if my question seemed naive, but since Tomcat > had options to control what was written out to the access log file, I > thought it might also have some options to control if ANYTHING was written > to the access log for certain entries(and possible in the configuration > itself.I suppose if everyone was an expert, then there would be no need for > these mailing lists. Thank you for your time and response. > Jeff > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
