Logrotate files with date in the file name

Question

I am trying to configure logrotate in RHEL for tomcat6 logs. Currently, logrotate works fine for catalina.out log, it is rotated and compressed properly.

The problem

Answer 1

To enable daily log rotation in tomcat [linux] with postfix of date to catalina file, do the below changes.

Download cronolog package and install in linux os

wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/cronolog/cronolog-1.6.2.tar.gz/md5/a44564fd5a5b061a5691b9a837d04979/cronolog-1.6.2.tar.gz

tar -zxvf cronolog-1.6.2.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install 

open apache-tomcat-7.0.65/bin/catalina.sh file using vi command and change the lines as given below example : /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.65/bin/catalina.sh

shift
touch "$CATALINA_OUT"
# comment above line as below 
#touch "$CATALINA_OUT"
if [ "$1" = "-security" ] ; then
if [ $have_tty -eq 1 ]; then
  echo "Using Security Manager"
fi
shift
eval "\"$_RUNJAVA\"" "\"$LOGGING_CONFIG\"" $LOGGING_MANAGER $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS \
  -Djava.endorsed.dirs="\"$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" \
  -Djava.security.manager \
  -Djava.security.policy=="\"$CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.policy\"" \
  -Dcatalina.base="\"$CATALINA_BASE\"" \
  -Dcatalina.home="\"$CATALINA_HOME\"" \
  -Djava.io.tmpdir="\"$CATALINA_TMPDIR\"" \
  org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \
  #>> "$CATALINA_OUT" 2>&1 "&"
  # comment above line and add below given line
2>&1 |/usr/local/sbin/cronolog "$CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina-%Y-%m-%d.out" &
else
eval "\"$_RUNJAVA\"" "\"$LOGGING_CONFIG\"" $LOGGING_MANAGER $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS \
  -Djava.endorsed.dirs="\"$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" \
  -Dcatalina.base="\"$CATALINA_BASE\"" \
  -Dcatalina.home="\"$CATALINA_HOME\"" \
  -Djava.io.tmpdir="\"$CATALINA_TMPDIR\"" \
  org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \
  #>> "$CATALINA_OUT" 2>&1 "&"         
  # comment above line and add below given line
2>&1 |/usr/local/sbin/cronolog "$CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina-%Y-%m-%d.out" &
fi

After the above changes save the file and restart the tomcat to apply changes.