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Danilo Brambilla
Asked: 2010-04-27 02:56:13 +0800 CST

How rotate TomCat 6 logs on Windows every night

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Our Tomcat 6 is running on a Windows Server 2003 server producing some logs on Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\logs folder.

Only catalina.YYYY-MM-DD.log rotates every night.

Files Admin, Host-Manager, Jakarta, LocalHost, Manager, stderr and stdout do not rotate and are dated at the last server restart date. These files are most empty and always locked.

How can I set Tomcat to rotate all these logs every night (if possible without server/service restart)?

Thank you in advance for help.

tomcat windows-server-2003 log-files

1 Answers

  1. In Linux (and FreeBSD) we have logrotate. On Windows, I think you can compile its source against Cygwin.

    logrotate source: https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate/

    Cygwin installer: http://www.cygwin.com

    Tip for compiling logrotate on Cygwin: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00856.html

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