Joleen, On 11/30/15 7:32 AM, Joleen Barker wrote: > I will send the log4 details but I wanted to send this information first. > The above details for the files remained the same all this time until I > decided to login to the software and try to do some work. I had expected > the files to roll at midnight each night which I did not see. But, long > behold
N.B. This is usually said "lo and behold". [1] > I run an ls -la command and the logs after I logged in and tried a > couple things on the software and it appears the logs roll over and a new > catalina log and localhost log started. Does some activity need to take > place for the logs to roll over? Yes. The documentation suggests otherwise, but the appender won't actually re-name the file and open a new one until it gets a write operation after midnight had occurred. So it's possible to entirely skip a day if there are no logging events that are sent to the appender. I'm not sure if it will re-name and re-open when an event comes /and is filtered/ (e.g. by a LEVEL that is too high for the logging-event) or only when a log message will actually be written to the file. > I thought it was supposed to be each night at midnight. Also the > dates of the files are a little misleading because they rolled today > and not on 11-25 when they started up. Right, the creation-timestamp of the new file will be the time that the file was created, not 00:00 at the beginning of the day when you thought it should be created. > Here is what I see now: > > -rw-r--r--. root root 24372 Nov 30 06:33 catalina > -rw-r--r--. root root 30694 Nov 25 22:49 catalina.2015-11-25.log > -rw-r--r--. root root 0 Nov 25 22:49 catalina.out So it looks like catalina.out has nothing in it anymore. That's good, right? Nothing is going to stderr/stdout. > -rw-r--r--. root root 0 Nov 25 22:49 host-manager > -rw-r--r--. root root 24372 Nov 30 06:33 localhost > -rw-r--r--. root root 31909 Nov 25 22:49 localhost.2015-11-25.log > -rw-r--r--. root root 0 Nov 25 22:49 > localhost_access_log.2015-11-25.txt > -rw-r--r--. root root 25988 Nov 30 06:34 localhost_access_log.2015-11-30 > .txt > -rw-r--r--. root root 0 Nov 25 22:49 manager > [root@centos7sys1 logs]# date > Thu Nov 30 07:27:39 EST 2015 The file "catalina" (which you might want to name catalina.log or something, so it's less confusing) will always have the date of the most-recent log message written to it. Hope that helps, -chris [1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lo+and+behold --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
