How to log stdout output in Tomcat?

Question

Is there a way to log all stdout output to the catalina.log file in Tomcat? (i.e. everything that gets printed to System.out.println())

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Answer 1

Did you checked, whether the log4j.properties file can be found from your application? Maybe you can check, by setting a hardcoded file path like

-Dlog4j.configuration=file:///C:\Dev\log4j.properties

If the logs are written after these change, the relativ path to the log4j file is wrong.