logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate
large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression,
removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily,
weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.
http://iain.cx/src/logrotate/
and logrotate parameter copytruncate
copytruncate
Truncate the original log file to zero size in place after
creating a copy,
instead of moving the old log file and optionally creating a new
one. It can be
used when some program cannot be told to close its logfile and
thus might con-
tinue writing (appending) to the previous log file forever. Note
that there is a
very small time slice between copying the file and truncating it,
so some logging
data might be lost. When this option is used, the create
option will have no
effect, as the old log file stays in place.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Log_File_Rotationlog4j and commons-logging are
loggind implementations specific to TC logging
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html
apparently logrotate (with copyrotate option) has the widest range of logging
activity for application, cron and webapps available
?
Martin Gainty
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> From: vijay2...@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:36:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: tomcat Access logs
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
>
> Hi,
> Any help will be useful... should i write a custom log4j class instead of
> accessvalve class in tomcat?
>
> Regards,
> </VJ>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Vijay <vijay2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am using a tomcat tailer which needs the file name to be the same and not
> > changinging (Dont want to see the Date in the file name). hence i want a
> > solution to have the logs rotated as well as the file name of the active log
> > files to remain the same.... Do we have a solution like it?
> >
> > When i search in the internet i found logrotate copytruncate option
> > available, can we use this? whats the implication? do you guys recommend it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > </VJ>
> >
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