catalina.out rolling with Tomcat 6.0

Question

I have a default tomcat installation with no change to the logging configuration. The log files (in particular catalina.out) appear to be getting rolled (daily) correctly.

Answer 1

I also noticed my tomcat log folder (/usr/local/tomcat/logs) was quite huge. To check the size of the log folder do the following du -hs /usr/local/tomcat/logs/. To resolved this issue by setting up a cron that would clean the files every night or you can run these commands manually. Here is the shell script that would delete files which are 5 days older

#!/bin/sh
find /usr/local/tomcat/logs -name 'catalina.*.log' -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
find /usr/local/tomcat/logs -name 'localhost_access_log.*.txt' -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f