I just did some more tests. What happens is: - Whatever you put in your app log4j property files is what will go to the catalina.out. There is no such thing as getting a catalina.out clean. - You can have a rotateable tomcat.log. But that will be deplicated from what is already in catalina.out
Please correct me if I'm wrong. 2008/10/20 emerson cargnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Again the issue of the logs. > > According to: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html > > 1) I add log4j-1.2.15.jar and commons-logging-1.1.1.jar inside my common/lib > 2) I create a log4j.properties inside common/classes with the following > content: > > log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, R > log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.R.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd > log4j.appender.R.File=/dev/servers/apache-tomcat-5.5.26_fe/tomcat.log > log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n > > > Result: > > 1) a rotateable tomcat.log should be created, containing only error logs > 2) catalina.out would have all log4j messages, which would be > redirected to tomcat.log > > Well, it doesn't actually happen. > > - The tomcat.log is actually created, but it still contains all of > debug/info messages. > - catalina.out still has all log4j messages. > > > Could someone confirm what is the right behaviour? > > regards > Emerson > > 2008/8/21 emerson cargnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Which are the views of other people in the list? >> >> >> On 21/08/2008, emerson cargnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Kees >>> >>> That one is another log file, configured at logging.properties: >>> 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = INFO >>> 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs >>> 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina. >>> >>> On 20/08/2008, Kees Jan Koster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Dear Emerson, >>> > >>> > > >>> > > > Truncating? It should be a rolling file, rolling over daily. You can >>> > just >>> > > > remove the old versions. Is this a stock tomcat, one from the ports, >>> > > > or >>> > > > maybe a particularly old one? >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > catalina.out is set at the catalina.sh: >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > > >>> > > > > "$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 >>> > >>> > http://java-monitor.com/forum/ >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > 06-51838192 >>> > >>> > Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so >>> > full of wonders, >>> > they have managed to invent boredom. Quite astonishing... -- Terry >>> > Partchett >>> > >>> > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > >>> > >>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
