On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:29 +0100, jean-frederic clere wrote: > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Recently on Gentoo I was looking to improve how we start Tomcat. > > Specifically how we capture stdout/stderr output from Tomcat on start > > and redirect it to catalina.out. > > Have to tried to use jsvc from http://commons.apache.org/daemon/ for that?
We presently use start-stop-daemon. Which has some --stdout --stderr options coming. It nastily send that stuff to /dev/null, if the --background flag is passed along. We had a long time bug/feature request for jsvc. I considered it, but elected to not go that route. If people want Tomcat on port 80 they can do port forwarding or etc. Which allows Tomcat to remaining running as a non-root user or etc. Nor the need for jsvc to accomplish that. So it's kinda moot. But I believe the argument is that applications should do their own stderr/out redirection and not to it external of the app. As in not via bash/shell redirection and sending that to a log file. The app should be doing that internally. So if I am using start-stop-daemon, or jsvc. It doesn't really change that aspect. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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