Hi Christopher, On 02/01/2016 05:07 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Harald, > > On 2/1/16 10:42 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> would it be possible to integate apache's rotatelogs into >> catalina.sh to support daily rotation of catalina.out without >> restart? > > Nope. >
:-(. >> This would be #1 on my wish list for version 9. > > If you use the Tomcat startup scripts, the shell is responsible for > output redirection. Hacking that to pipe-through an external program > (eg. chronolog, etc.) is possible but makes the scripts very complicated > . OK, then the question is why does catalina.sh write to catalina.out at all? stdout/stderr of the script would be sufficient. Writing to a hard wired log file without rotation is the worst option of all (even if you can choose the file name). > > If you want to rotate stdout/stderr logs, you should use jsvc or some > other service-runner; they will know how to rotate those files. For > example, jsvc can rotate those files when it receives a signal. > Will this make catalina.out obsolete? Regards Harri --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org