-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard,
On 12/21/2009 9:56 AM, Richard Sayre wrote: > I usually install Tomcat as a Service under windows which causes all > Tomcat output to go to stdout.log. I am in a situation where I can > not do this. I have to start Tomcat from the command line. When I do > all of Tomcats output is logged to the console. How do I manually > configure Tomcat so the output gets logged to a file? > > I tried the instructions under the log4j section here > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html > > When I restarted Tomcat no new log file was created. The output > stilled logged to the console window. Could you specify what you did do? Posting your logging.properties file would also be helpful. I believe there are a few messages that Tomcat simply logs to System.out/System.err and there's nothing you can do about that. STARTUP.BAT calls CATALINA.BAT which, as you have seen, runs "START java.exe ...". If you read through that mess, you'll see that no output redirection is done. I think Windows doesn't do stdout/stderr inheritance when one process calls another (or, at least, running "start" escapes that). Finally, the "start" command doesn't appear to have a "redirect stdout to a file" option. It looks like you already tried redirecting the output of "start" to no avail.... looks like Windows is fighting you, here. Is Tomcat itself generating a lot of output? If you have your logging configuration correct, very little should end up on stdout. If it's your webapp that's spewing to stdout, check out the "swallowOutput" attribute of the <Context> configuration element in context.xml. You'll still have to have a sane logging configuration for this to work properly. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksv1BcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC7TQCZAcgnZ4cDaEDHkdj+VlTYJE+v xc4AoKbYIhLVGb8EiFDj2Jkz9sW91ABV =axVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
