Thanks! I think you may be on to something there. Yes, the system administrator installed Tomcat from one of the Mandrake RPMs. It may very well use logrotate for all I know; I didn't install Tomcat on Mandrake and don't know much about Mandrake yet.
I'll run this by our system administrator; I expect to see a light bulb go on over his head when he hears your theory ;-) Thanks again! Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "QM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:00 PM Subject: Re: Automatic gzip of tomcat logs in Linux? > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Rhino wrote: > : It would surprise me if Tomcat is the culprit here since Tomcat 4.1.24 on my > : Windows XP doesn't zip its logs but I thought I'd ask anyway. If anyone else > : is using Tomcat 4.1.x on Mandrake, maybe you can suggest an alternate cause > : for this behaviour. I don't want to throw stones, I just want to stop this > : behaviour. > > I'm going out on a limb here, but does Mandrake use logrotate? > Check /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d for references to Tomcat > logs. > > If you installed from a prebuilt package, perhaps that made an entry in > /etc/logrotate.d ; if by hand, perhaps one of your sysadmins made the > entry for you. > > -QM > > -- > > software -- http://www.brandxdev.net > tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
