logging to catalina.out, tailing the log

[Jack Bakker, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

on linux I commonly have in .bash_aliases several utility console commands like:

alias cdtom='cd /opt/liferay-portal-6.0.6/tomcat-6.0.29'
alias tailt='tail -f /opt/liferay-portal-6.0.6/tomcat-6.0.29/logs/catalina.out'
alias deploy='mv /opt/liferay-portal-6.0.6/deploy_tmp/*.war /opt/liferay-portal-6.0.6/deploy'

the 2nd one 'tailt' allows me to watch catalina.out which is good for seeing when Liferay has finished starting up, and for other reasons

catalina.out can get big over time, and I'd like to roll it daily while still involving a 'tailt' approach

ideas ?

[David H Nebinger, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

i think logrotate will help you w/ your log issue (but I'd stick w/ changing the tomcat logging prefs in the conf directory if you can), but tail won't follow the transition from one file to the next file...

[Jack Bakker, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

I will first try logrotate on linux (my preferred o/s generally)

I have several windows production installs too, so yeah, sticking to a scoped-to-a-tomcat config would offer a more generic cross-platform approach.

Thanks again David.