> From: Jonathan Mast [mailto:jhmast.develo...@gmail.com] > Subject: Access log behavior > > I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what happens when an > active (ie. today's) access log file is deleted?
There's not really any such thing as "delete" in Linux. When you do an rm, all that happens is an unlink() of whatever path points to the inode of interest. If the inode is still busy (e.g., an open() has been done on *any* path to the inode and a close() has not been done on the returned handle), the inode will continue to exist and support I/O requests. > Will Tomcat handle this gracefully or go bonkers? Tomcat won't know it happened. Whether or not the logger you're using does depends on if the logger keeps the file opened (most do), or closes and reopens it periodically. > when that happens i restart Tomcat just to be safe but I'd > rather not have to do this. Although the paths to the files are no longer accessible, the disk space they're consuming won't go away until you do the restart. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
