Hi Chris, I honestly don't care if they are in catalina.out, /var/log/messages, or a file named 'awesomestuff.log' - I just know that things are MISSING.
Let me be more specific - sorry if I'm not being clear here! Normal operation (running via systemd) - I get Tomcat startup/shutdown, and some other info in catalina-YYYY-MM-DD.log. I don't get the debug information for opensaml. When I start via startup.sh directly - a lot more is being logged to catalina.out than anywhere else I have been able to find. I tried starting Tomcat without using systemd by just doing the following - but still no catalina.out. /opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \ -Dcatalina.home=${CATALINA_HOME} \ -Dcatalina.base=${CATALINA_BASE} \ -Djava.awt.headless=true \ -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \ -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/logging.properties \ -Dlog4j2.FormatMsgNoLookups=true \ -cp ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/bootstrap.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar \ -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \ -java-home ${JAVA_HOME} \ -user tomcat \ $CATALINA_OPTS \ org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap I ended up temporarily just starting via startup.sh just long enough to get the error logs I was looking for into catalina.out - then started it up again normally. Sorry to bother everyone with this - but I appreciate your assistance! ________________________________ From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 1:34 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org <users@tomcat.apache.org> Subject: Re: Issue with catalina.out not being generated (RHEL 7.9, tomcat 9.0.63) CAUTION: Message from a non-New Paltz email server. Treat message, links, and attachments with extra caution. Paul, On 8/11/22 13:03, Paul Chauvet wrote: > Hi Noelette, > > Thanks for the reponse! > > It logs to catalina-YYYY-MM-DD.log, localhost.YY-MM-DD.log, > localhost_access_log.YYYY-MM-DD.txt - but it doesn't use catalina.out. > > When I temporarily started Tomcat via startup.sh it did create catalina.out > (and start logging the things that it wasn't logging into the other files, > /var/log/messages, or the systemd journal). > > I'll see if I can get my setup (at least temporarily) working with startup.sh. OH... you might just be misunderstanding what's happening. When you use catalina.sh start (or startup.sh), that script just does this: java [stuff] > ${CATALINA_BASE}/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 When you run with jsvc, it includes some built-in file-rotation and so catalina-[date].log is the same thing. Are you irritated that you can't read the logs, or are you irritated that the log file isn't specifically "catalina.out"? -chris > ________________________________ > From: Noelette Stout <noelettest...@isu.edu> > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2022 12:35 PM > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Issue with catalina.out not being generated (RHEL 7.9, tomcat > 9.0.63) > > CAUTION: Message from a non-New Paltz email server. Treat message, links, and > attachments with extra caution. > > > We use systemd with jsvc and our tomcat instances write to > $CATALINA_BASE/logs by default. > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:10 AM Paul Chauvet <chauv...@newpaltz.edu> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I haven't been able to figure this out - but a catalina.out file is not >> being generated for me. Sadly - I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue (with >> a vendor's saml implementation) which wants to write to that file (and >> doesn't seem to be writing what I need to catalina.YYYY-DD-MM.logs, >> /var/log/messages, or into the journal as seen by "journalctl >> --unit=tomcat.service"). >> >> >> My environment: >> >> * RHEL 7.9 (though the same happens on my RHEL 8 hosts) >> * Tomcat 9.0.63 (installed from the .tar.gz download from >> https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi - not from the OS repository) >> * Using jsvc via a systemd startup script to start Tomcat (that script >> is at the bottom of this message). >> >> I've tried specifying CATALINA_OUT in setenv.sh, and in my systemd startup >> script. I've temporarily disabled SELinux to see if that makes a >> difference. Neither of those work. What does work, though I would like to >> avoid it, is if I start Tomcat via ./startup.sh. If I do that - >> catalina.out is generated but I'm not getting other settings I set in my >> systemd script (or having it tied to startup/shutdown of the OS). >> >> I don't know what I'm missing or doing wrong here, or if there's something >> about jsvc that is an issue here that I can't figure out. I've been unable >> to find anything related to this (lots of posts about catalina.out related >> to operating system distributed versions of Tomcat that don't appear to >> apply). >> >> Any advice here would be greatly appreciated! >> >> My systemd startup script is below. >> >> >> [Unit] >> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container >> After=syslog.target network.target >> >> [Service] >> Type=forking >> PIDFile=/var/run/tomcat.pid >> UMask=0007 >> >> # Tomcat variables >> Environment='JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk' >> Environment='CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat.pid' >> Environment='CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/latest' >> Environment='CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/latest' >> Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx2048M -XX:+UseParallelGC -server' >> Environment='CATALINA_OUT=/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out' >> >> # Needed to make use of Tomcat Native Library >> Environment='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/tomcat/latest/lib' >> >> ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \ >> -Dcatalina.home=${CATALINA_HOME} \ >> -Dcatalina.base=${CATALINA_BASE} \ >> -Djava.awt.headless=true \ >> >> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \ >> >> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/logging.properties \ >> -Dlog4j2.FormatMsgNoLookups=true \ >> -cp >> ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/bootstrap.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar >> \ >> -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \ >> -java-home ${JAVA_HOME} \ >> -user tomcat \ >> $CATALINA_OPTS \ >> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap >> >> ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \ >> -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \ >> -stop \ >> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap >> >> [Install] >> WantedBy=multi-user.target >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Paul Chauvet, CISSP >> >> Information Security Officer >> >> State University of New York at New Paltz >> >> chauv...@newpaltz.edu >> >> > > -- > Noelette Stout > ITS Enterprise Applications - Senior Application Administrator > Idaho State University > E-mail: stounoel "at" isu "dot" edu > Desk: 208-282-2554 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org