2009/5/10 johnrock <johnpi...@yahoo.com>: > > I am setting up a CentOS 5 server running tomcat and wanted to know whether > the best practice is to leave the Tomcat logfiles in their default location: > > /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/logs > > or whether I should place them in another directory like /var/log/tomcat. > > Is this possible, and/or preferred? > > I am new to Linux, but my understanding so far was that changing data like > logfiles should not be under /usr/ but instead under /var/. Is that a > correct interpretation in this case? > > Thanks > --
1. the log folder contains: 1) log output By default java.util.logging (aka JULI) is used to write those logs, though there is possibility to use log4j. It is configured as described in http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html For JULI the configuration file is logging.properties 2) catalina.out, that is redirected stdout, strerr of java process running the server Look into the shell script that starts Tomcat. That is where the redirection occurs. 2. I have configurations where log folder is stored in /var/log/... and the log folder of Tomcat is simply a symbolic link to that location. It works, and I think that would be one of the easiest ways to configure it. 3. If you are concerned about /usr vs. /var, you may want to pay attention to the possibility of separating CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE E.g., you may place conf, webapps, work etc. folders on /var, while bin, common, server remain on /usr. See RUNNING.txt in the distributive. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
