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André Warnier wrote: > Anyway, my question is : > In this /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 file, in the "start" section, there is a > line that looks like this : > mkfifo -m700 "$CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina.out > > I am unfamiliar with the mkfifo command. The man page is no help unless you know what a 'fifo' is. Of course, mkfifo creates a fifo! (duh) This will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe As Brantley points out, Debian is using a fifo (an object on the filesystem) to subvert Tomcat's usual, non-rotatable catalina.out output file and instead sending all those bytes to some other program for likely depositing onto the filesystem in nice, date-stamped files. > Does the fact that the "rotatelogs" utility is also used some lines > further down shed any light onto this ? Probably. I'm not familiar with 'rotatelogs' specifically, but it stands to reason that they'd create a consumer for all those log bytes expected to be streaming out to catalina.out after Tomcat starts. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjQKyQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PB+HACfYxOO4+3+AZ+1qf5+SADSMXJV c7EAoKKX9kSrCf6+zp5j0Rvdj8oTAQVU =Ua3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
