I did this on my 18.04 [temporary test] system and it now works (catalina.out is written to) (the "ls" commands were for visual inspection on progress)
calder@ren: ~$ sudo service tomcat9 stop calder@ren: ~$ sudo -u tomcat -g adm touch /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out calder@ren: ~$ ls -l /var/log/tomcat9/ [...] calder@ren: ~$ sudo chown tomcat9:syslog /var/log/tomcat9 -R calder@ren: ~$ sudo chown tomcat:syslog /var/log/tomcat9 -R calder@ren: ~$ sudo ls -l /var/log [...] calder@ren: ~$ sudo chmod g+rwx /var/log/tomcat9/ calder@ren: ~$ sudo chmod g+rw /var/log/tomcat9/ -R calder@ren: ~$ sudo chmod g+s /var/log/tomcat9/ -R calder@ren: ~$ sudo service rsyslog restart calder@ren: ~$ sudo service tomcat9 start calder@ren: ~$ ls -l /var/log/tomcat9/ [...] calder@ren: ~$ sudo ls -l /var/log/tomcat9/ -rw-rwS--- 1 tomcat syslog 26276 Jun 23 21:31 catalina.2020-06-23.log -rw-rwSr-- 1 tomcat syslog 4125 Jun 23 21:31 catalina.out -rw-rwS--- 1 tomcat syslog 0 Jun 23 19:51 localhost.2020-06-23.log -rw-rwS--- 1 tomcat syslog 1462 Jun 23 20:53 localhost_access_log.2020-06-23.txt calder@ren: ~$ sudo cat /var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] Server version name: Apache Tomcat/9.0.31 (Ubuntu) [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] Server built: Feb 24 2020 22:37:00 UTC [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] Server version number: 9.0.31.0 [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] OS Name: Linux [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] OS Version: 5.4.0-37-generic [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] Architecture: amd64 [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] Java Home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64 [2020-06-23 21:30:57] [info] JVM Version: 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-3ubuntu1 [ . . . ] [2020-06-23 21:30:59] [info] Deployment of web application archive [/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ourtest.war] has finished in [1,563] ms [2020-06-23 21:31:00] [info] Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"] [2020-06-23 21:31:00] [info] Server startup in [2,549] milliseconds --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
