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

Fixed it, turns out the standard logging configuration defines a file logger and also a console logger. The file logger goes to the daily catalina log, and the console logger writes to catalina.out.

Fix was to change in conf/logging.properties:

.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

to

.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

That stops anything getting written to catalina.out

Answer 2

Hi you may want to try this solution

http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-rotate-tomcat-catalinaout

It uses a cronjob (logrotate) to copy, compress and clean your catalina.out and if you have a look at logrotate you will see it has a lot of additional functionality. It does not interfere with the daily logs, unless you configure it do so. I found it helpful when I was confronted with the same problem.

BTW removing the console handler will only affect messages produced by Tomcat.

Answer 3

I had same problem on Ubuntu 11.04 SOLR server and catalina.out file was almost 1GB. After

changing logging.properties:

.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

to

.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

That stops logging to catalina.out

You can find logging.properties file on /etc/tomcat6/ folder for Ubuntu Linux.

Answer 4

you can rotate the your catalina.out file by configure :-

Steps:-

• 1) Goto /etc/logrotate.d and Create file tomcat

• 2) Paste below line

• Rotate by size

/opt/OS/OS2/logs/catalina.out {
copytruncate
daily
rotate 30
compress
missingok
size 20M
}

-- size - backup catelina.out if size is greater then 20MB

OR

• Rotate by Date

/opt/deadpool/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out {

copytruncate

dateext

daily

rotate 30

compress

missingok

}

• rotate - Save last 30 rotation
• dateext - backup catelina.out everyday
• daily - Rotation daily basis
• compress - rotation in compress form
• missingok - if something is missing in rotation it will create no impect

3) Restart the server

Its work for me :) Hope this will help someone.

Thank you :)

Answer 5

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