On 06/01/2017 01:22, modjkl...@comcast.net wrote: > Newbie Tomcat user here. I installed Tomcat 8.5.9 on CentOS 7 a few > days ago and noticed the default log files for catalina, > host-manager, localhost, and manager are created fresh each day with > a date in their filename. > > Doesn't this fill up the directory over time?
Yes. > Wouldn't it be better > to have the logs accumulate in one file for some time? Then you'd just have one file getting bigger over time. > Can someone set my expectations what the default logging behavior is, One file per day. > then recommend a general approach to configuring something more > manageable (from a sheer number-of-files standpoint)? Cron job to delete anything more than X days old. Longer term, the FileHandler could be enhanced to add an option to delete files more than X days old. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
