Howdy, We use nightly rotated (at midnight) log4j logs, using log4j's DailyRollingFileAppender class. It's worked very well for us. The files are automatically renamed, e.g. from x.txt to x.txt.2003-03-31, and we archive them that way.
We cat them all together periodically for traffic analysis etc, although there are tools which remove the need for concatenating all the log4j together. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: klute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:20 PM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: best practices on rotating tomcat logs > >Hi All, > >i run tomcat behind apache via mod_jk. currently i >define a timestamped <Logger> for each <Context> in my >server.xml: > ><Logger >className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="mycontextA." suffix=".txt" > timestamp="true"/> > >and a logger for my engine in which all the contexts >reside: > ><Logger >className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="apache_log." suffix=".txt" > timestamp="true"/> > >All the tomcat's sdtout goes to catalina.out (default >setup). > >I am wondering if this is pretty much what other >people do and if there is a better way of doing it. > >i just found that apache can rotate its logs with its >bin/rotatelogs where you can specify the rotation >interval. > >does tomcat have a similar functionality? i searched >for "rotate" in Tomcat's source and found the >AccessLogValve class which could be i want, but i need >help figuring it out. > >thanks a lot! >james > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! >http://platinum.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]
