I want to be able to run Sonatype Nexus as a service on the Mac. It comes with the Java Service Wrapper start scripts for the mac so I basically have a shell script that can start the server.
I believe I have to add some sort of setup to /etc/launchd.conf and maybe use launchctl. All documentation I found points to plist files though but I don't have such a file for Nexus.
I have been using logrotation for years and never thought too much of it being a problem until I came across a question on stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1508734/disable-java-log-rotation/) where someone wants to disable log rotation.
To me with experience in having build server and even production servers cleaned up manually because logs are not rotated and discs are running out and suddenly machines come to a halt that all seems crazy, but it occurred to me that maybe it is not so obvious after all.
So what are the benefits of log rotation? And what are the drawbacks (e.g. more difficult to debug/analyze maybe)? What tools do you find useful for working with rotated log files? Splunk I assume, but what else?