This is great information to know. Our installations are on AIX boxes however.
Joleen On Mar 10, 2016 10:31 PM, "George Stanchev" <gstanc...@serena.com> wrote: > If you run tomcat via the windows server wrapper, you can > > "%TOMCAT_EXE%" //US//%TOMCAT_SERVICE_NAME% --StdOutput > "%TOMCAT_CONSOLE_LOG%" --StdError "%TOMCAT_CONSOLE_LOG%" > > Which will redirect the stderr and stdoout to the corresponding log files > > George > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joleen Barker [mailto:oldenuf2no...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 5:48 PM > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Understanding how to controlling what data is written to > log4j appenders > > 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_fo > > r_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 > > > > >