Tomcat Catalina

Catalina is a Tomcat servlet container. Several of the Tomcat startup and stop routines rely on catalina routine (either catalina.bat on Windows or catalina.sh on Linux).

The logfile catalina.out contains everything that developers have logged using system.println. Due to this catalina.out can grow in size, and may need to rotated or need to swallow the output from application contexts. you can do it by setting swallowOutput to true.

Catalina follows the servlet spec specified by Sun Microsystems. A servlet is a web component managed by a container that generates dynamic content. Servlets are platform independent
and are loaded dynamically into Tomcat server. The servlet containers provide the necessary functionality. Servlets interact with web clients via a request/response pattern.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2010-02-03 10:11. #

I need help with Tomcat Catalina log rotation. catalina.out rotate makes no sense to me.

 

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