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A question about log-rotation on "catalina.out" from Tomcat

I am not sure if I should post my question here. Just try, maybe someone can answer.

I have now a problem/question:

I've installed Tomcat 5.5.27 on Linux. Though the "catalina.out" will be rotated everyday, i.g. "catalina.yyyy-mm-dd.log. But the "catalina.out"-self doesn't begin from the new day but still contains the old log messages. I've heard this is default setting. Is it true?

How can I improve this log-rotation so that everyday the "catalina.out" will be closed and renamed and a new one created which just holds the current day log messages?

Show the content of the logrotate cfg for this file. Sounds like you haven't got 'truncate' option on.

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Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 3737397)

Show the content of the logrotate cfg for this file. Sounds like you haven't got 'truncate' option on.

Here it is:

Code:

[ivs@s003ap25-test ~]$ more /etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details

# rotate log files weekly

weekly



# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs

rotate 4



# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones

create



# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed

#compress



# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory

include /etc/logrotate.d



# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here

/var/log/wtmp {

    monthly

    create 0664 root utmp

    rotate 1

}



# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

[ivs@s003ap25-test ~]$

Here I can't see anything to do with Tomcat "catalina.out".