Dear Emerson,
Truncating? It should be a rolling file, rolling over daily. You
can just
remove the old versions. Is this a stock tomcat, one from the
ports, or
maybe a particularly old one?
catalina.out is set at the catalina.sh:
"$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 &
This file is not rateable, as it is jsut a redirection.
You are right. Woops, I thought it was a rotatable file. Maybe I
restart my Tomcats too often. :)
We are thinking in moving this redirection to /dev/null or just
remove the redirection.
Is it a sense thing to do?
To get rid of an ever-growing file, yes. However, you have to make
really sure that you still get all the stack traces and whatnot that
is in that file, only get them into a rolling file.
Ahhhh. Wait. Now I know why I never run into this. I run my Tomcats in
screen using "catalina.sh run", so catalina.out is written to the
console instead of a file. I do get a nice daily log e.g. catalina.
2008-08-20.log.
That would mean it is safe to redirect catalina.out to /dev/null, as
long as you have the daily logs.
--
Kees Jan
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so full of wonders,
they have managed to invent boredom. Quite astonishing... -- Terry
Partchett
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