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Tomcat's catalina.out logging

  • 13-04-2011 10:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭


    I've got an out of the box Tomcat 5.5 setup, apparently using JULI to log everything because I haven't touched log4j. It has the default logging.properties file that defines the handlers.
    
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    handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
    
    .handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
    
    ############################################################
    # Handler specific properties.
    # Describes specific configuration info for Handlers.
    ############################################################
    
    1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
    1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
    1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = catalina.
    
    2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
    2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
    2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = localhost.
    
    3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
    3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
    3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = manager.
    
    4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
    4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
    4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = admin.
    
    5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
    5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
    5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = host-manager.
    
    ############################################################
    # Facility specific properties.
    # Provides extra control for each logger.
    ############################################################
    
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = INFO
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers = 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
    
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].level = INFO
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].handlers = 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
    
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/admin].level = INFO
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/admin].handlers = 4admin.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
    
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].level = INFO
    org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].handlers = 5host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
    
    # For example, set the com.xyz.foo logger to only log SEVERE
    # messages
    #org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.level = FINE
    #org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.level = FINE
    #org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.level = FINE
    

    Everything I've read indicates that to stop it logging I simply either change java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level to SEVERE, WARN or something else. Or I remove the handler. The thing is, none of these handlers are responsible for catalina.out - catalina.out is wrote to by the catalina.sh script (i.e. the script you run to start tomcat). I can't find anything on how to lower the log level for catalina.out - It's currently set to at least DEBUG.

    I could logrotate the file, or change the bits in catalina.sh to output to /dev/null but I'd rather try address the problem if possible


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Eugh, fixed now.

    Didn't realise you could deploy apps that use different logging systems (e.g. log4j) and they would output to stderr, completely skipping over Tomcat's logging settings.

    Catalina.out is much less cluttered now, am happy.

    Sorry mods, couldn't delete thread and I'm not a fan of when the first post is edited with "delete me" :)


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