On 19/04/2010 23:11, André Warnier wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 19/04/2010 22:32, André Warnier wrote: >>> I disagree.
Fair enough. >>> The point raised by the OP above is one that bothers a lot of people. I don't like juli logging at all, but hitting tab & a couple of keys isn't that traumatic. Really. >>> The lame bit is the way in which standard out-of-the-box Tomcat >>> generates its logfiles, and their rotation, inflexibly. Patching the FileHandler doesn't look so tricky, so if you can generate some consensus, or ideas about whether you just want to turn it off or configure rotatable pattern characteristics, I'll take a crack at it. p >>> And yes, I know one can implement log4j and do whatever one wants, but >>> for a large number of Tomcat occasional users and admins, that's too >>> much to ask. >>> I am not trying to start a flame, and I like Tomcat in general, and I >>> try to contribute to the limits of my limited abilities. I am just >>> pointing out one area in which, in my view, Tomcat is a bit deficient >>> for people who cannot spent much of their time on one particular >>> server-type software. >> >> So I can expect to see an enhancement request with some clear >> requirements that go beyond "the current implementation is lame" in >> bugzilla some time soon? >> > Allright. > How about collecting some suggestions before on this list ? > > I suggest a simple way whereby to tell Tomcat (optionally) just /not/ to > rotate its logfiles itself, and to always write to a fixed filename. > (an additional property in logging.properties ?) > There exists under Linux the logrotate utility, which is perfect for > that kind of thing. And with Apache (Unix and Windows) is supplied the > rotatelogs utility, which can be used with a pipe to much the same effect. > Not much to do at the Tomcat level, and much simplification at the > sysadmin level. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
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