catalina.out

[kalin mintchev <ka...@el.net>]

  hi all...

  how come if i raname catalina.out to catalina.out.OLD and the create a
new catalina.out tomcat still writes to catalina.out.old?!


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Re: catalina.out

[Tim Diggins <su...@red56.co.uk>]

kalin mintchev wrote:
>   hi all...
> 
>   how come if i raname catalina.out to catalina.out.OLD and the create a
> new catalina.out tomcat still writes to catalina.out.old?!
> 

I believe that's really to do with the magic of the underlying 
filesystem and not tomcat-related (think of filesystem names under a 
unix-like operating system as pointers to actually memory (inodes) and i 
think that's an analogy that works. Under windows it doesn't work like 
that at all (hence no ln function) and instead you are prevented from 
renaming a file with open handles).

more practically (and back in the world of tomcat) there is a useful faq 
entry & discussion list entry here: 
http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/logging.html#catalina.out

- Tim

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