On 06/01/2017 01:22, modjkl...@comcast.net wrote:
> Newbie Tomcat user here. I installed Tomcat 8.5.9 on CentOS 7 a few
> days ago and noticed the default log files for catalina,
> host-manager, localhost, and manager are created fresh each day with
> a date in their filename.
>
> Doesn't this fill up the directory over time?
Yes.
> Wouldn't it be better
> to have the logs accumulate in one file for some time?
Then you'd just have one file getting bigger over time.
> Can someone set my expectations what the default logging behavior is,
One file per day.
> then recommend a general approach to configuring something more
> manageable (from a sheer number-of-files standpoint)?
Cron job to delete anything more than X days old.
Longer term, the FileHandler could be enhanced to add an option to
delete files more than X days old.
Mark
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