Thanks for the tips. I have to use the perl program for now to accomplish the task for the company but l'll continue to work this for the sake of learning and getting this changed through to application.
Joleen On Mar 10, 2016 7:42 PM, "Konstantin Kolinko" <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-03-11 2:49 GMT+03:00 Joleen Barker <oldenuf2no...@gmail.com>: > > I wanted to let you know that I really tried at this and feel the > changes I > > made should be working and it is a matter of the developer hard coding > the > > log messages to go to the stdout/stderr and became lazy as one of the > other > > that commented had stated. I opened a ticket with the vendor but I have > no > > idea how long it will take. So I went the route of writing a small perl > > script to copy the catalina.out file to a file with the same name and the > > date and time appended on the file name and then next I open the existing > > catalina.out file to clear the contents and then close it again to start > > the next day with a clean log file. It isn't the way I wanted to go but I > > ran out of time. If the vendor decides to work with me, it would be great > > but I have a feeling they will not go back and change things. > > > > On the logging page of the FAQ: > https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Logging#Q10 > > > By the way, > 1) It is possible to run with a debugger and put a breakpoint into > java.io.PrintStream.println(String). I doubt that the PrintStream > class is used much anywhere except to implement System.out/System.err. > https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Debugging > > 2) It is possible to search the class files for the message text. The > classes store it in UTF-8, and jar files are just zip archives. > > > > So are you suggesting to remove the ConsoleAppender from the > > log4j.properties that the vendor has in the WEB-INF/classes directory? > > Yes. > > The same for Tomcat own log configuration, > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/logging.html#Considerations_for_production_usage > > (Just mentioning for completeness. IIRC you have already reconfigured > Tomcat own logging.) > > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
