re: catalina error file

2009-09-09 Thread mateo-jl
Hello, sorry for the circular file expression ; it meant log rotation Thank you Martin, Chuck for your answers. jlm Message du 08/09/09 15:04 De : mateo-jl A : Tomcat List Copie à : Objet : catalina error file Hello, i would like to have a circular catalina error file

catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread mateo-jl
Hello, i would like to have a circular catalina error file is it possible ? Thank you jlm

RE: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: mateo-jl [mailto:mateo...@orange.fr] Subject: catalina error file i would like to have a circular catalina error file is it possible ? Maybe. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Logging http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread André Warnier
mateo-jl wrote: Hello, i would like to have a circular catalina error file is it possible ? Mmmm. The concept of a circular file sounds interesting. Maybe you want to explain a bit what you mean ? there may be a great technical breakthrough lurking

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread David Smith
André Warnier wrote: mateo-jl wrote: Hello, i would like to have a circular catalina error file is it possible ? Mmmm. The concept of a circular file sounds interesting. Maybe you want to explain a bit what you mean ? there may be a great technical breakthrough lurking there. I don't

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:07 PM, André Warniera...@ice-sa.com wrote: Mmmm. The concept of a circular file sounds interesting. In classic American office parlance (yeah, showing my age here), the circular file (or round file) was a euphemism for trash can :-) -- Hassan Schroeder

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread André Warnier
David Smith wrote: .. :-D The circular file still is the trash can. In that case, /dev/null should work. :-) Yeah but you want a buffer before the /dev/null, to give one a chance to peek at the contents. I like Chuck's proposal for the name. I mean, under Unix/Linux we already have stuff

RE: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Hassan Schroeder [mailto:hassan.schroe...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: catalina error file Basically a fixed-size serialized FIFO, right? Yes, but the complication occurs when the records are of unbounded variable size. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:45 PM, André Warniera...@ice-sa.com wrote: truncate, etc..  It should not be that difficult to implement a type of file that never exceeds a given size, and be done with all these localhost.mmdd.log files and logrotate and rotatelogs thingies. Basically a

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread David Smith
Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:07 PM, André Warniera...@ice-sa.com wrote: Mmmm. The concept of a circular file sounds interesting. In classic American office parlance (yeah, showing my age here), the circular file (or round file) was a euphemism for trash can :-)

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread André Warnier
David Smith wrote: ... Pure speculation on my part, but maybe the OP is looking for log rotation. Nah, much too simple. And so are syslog and other Windows Event logs. Neither did the OP tell us on which platform this would be, nor really even if it is related to Tomcat (though I admit that

RE: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: Re: catalina error file Mmmm. The concept of a circular file sounds interesting. Maybe you want to explain a bit what you mean ? there may be a great technical breakthrough lurking there. Nahhh, been there, done that - got one

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Hassan Schroeder [mailto:hassan.schroe...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: catalina error file Basically a fixed-size serialized FIFO, right? Yes, but the complication occurs when the records are of unbounded variable size. But we are talking about logfiles (e.g

Re: catalina error file

2009-09-08 Thread Pid
On 08/09/2009 20:37, André Warnier wrote: David Smith wrote: ... Pure speculation on my part, but maybe the OP is looking for log rotation. Nah, much too simple. And so are syslog and other Windows Event logs. Neither did the OP tell us on which platform this would be, nor really even if it