RE: Limit size of tomcat_out.log?
Hi, Is it possible, and if so how, to limit the size of the tomcat_out.og file? I have a development box that is running out of space sometimes because the log grows rather large when a lot of users are testing. Thanks all! What Tomcat versions are you using? Tomcat's Loggers (version 5.0 and earlier) automatically rotate, so you can have a script in place to delete old ones. For Tomcat 5.5 and later, you configure the logging via log4j or JDK 1.4 logging, which both support various options to control/trim file size. It's not good logging practice to write everything to standard output. Ig that's what's happening, and that's why it's ending up in tomcat.log, you should change the apps at some points to use a proper logging framework like log4j. Finally, there are tools like cronolog and logrotate which can rotate/trim this file for you: they're free and easy to use, just Google for them. The other approach is holistic: either get more disk space (it's cheap), configure the logging differently when there are many users, or both. So there's a bunch of stuff you can and should do. But Tomcat by itself doesn't provide much of it for you. These are routine sysadmin tasks. Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Limit size of tomcat_out.log?
I am on Tomcat 5.0.29. Can you point me at some documentation on configuring it? I'm not sure about the rotating... is that a configurable option? (I assume so). The log I just looked as was almost 2GB, and I would assume it would rotate before them. But, I have done quite a bit of configuring, so it's more than possible I changed the setting. I know it's not good practice in general, but in our test environment that's the way some other folks here want it. All error and debug info goes to our own application-level logs, but a lot of info-type messages show up in the Tomcat logs but NOT the app logs, and that's the way they want it (I think just to make it a little easier to look at the app log without going through all the unimportant messages). Ah, no sense arguing what's good to do or not, this is the way it is in this case. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, December 9, 2004 3:03 pm, Shapira, Yoav said: Hi, Is it possible, and if so how, to limit the size of the tomcat_out.og file? I have a development box that is running out of space sometimes because the log grows rather large when a lot of users are testing. Thanks all! What Tomcat versions are you using? Tomcat's Loggers (version 5.0 and earlier) automatically rotate, so you can have a script in place to delete old ones. For Tomcat 5.5 and later, you configure the logging via log4j or JDK 1.4 logging, which both support various options to control/trim file size. It's not good logging practice to write everything to standard output. Ig that's what's happening, and that's why it's ending up in tomcat.log, you should change the apps at some points to use a proper logging framework like log4j. Finally, there are tools like cronolog and logrotate which can rotate/trim this file for you: they're free and easy to use, just Google for them. The other approach is holistic: either get more disk space (it's cheap), configure the logging differently when there are many users, or both. So there's a bunch of stuff you can and should do. But Tomcat by itself doesn't provide much of it for you. These are routine sysadmin tasks. Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Limit size of tomcat_out.log?
Hi, I am on Tomcat 5.0.29. Can you point me at some documentation on configuring it? As I said, not much of this is done in Tomcat. It's not Tomcat's job to worry about you running out of disk space. The only Tomcat option relevant to this discussion is swallowOutput, which is a Context attribute that redirects System.out calls for that webapp from catalina.out to the Logger configured for that Context, if any. The Logger is automatically rotated nightly, but its size is not limited in any way. You can plug in a logger that has a size ceiling if you want: Loggers are easy to implement. Or you can use a 3rd party program as I mentioned, like cronolog or logrotate, to do this for you. Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
