Bug#607050: tomcat6: catalina.out grows

[Ludovic Claude]

Logback and slf4j can provide a solution here as well, by redirecting
all System.out and System.err to a log file managed by logback.

See:
http://blog.lidalia.org.uk/2010/04/system-out-over-slf4j-code-complete.html
https://github.com/Mahoney/sysout-over-slf4j

Ludovic

On 12/20/2010 10:13 AM, Elmar Haneke wrote:
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>> Thank you for the bug report.  I'm wondering if we could easily handle
>> this by using log4j instead of the juli logger as the default logging
>> subsystem.  That would handle daily or sized-based rotations without
>> requiring the user to set up anything additional.
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> I would not expect that to help.
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> File catalina.out is redirected stdout/stderr of tomcat java process it
> is not handled by any logging framework.
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> The output should be piped through cronolog ore something similiar.
> 
> Elmar
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