Tomcat log cutting

logrotate is a powerful system software, it has a 1 set of complete operating mode on the log file, such as: dump, mail and compression, etc., and the default logrotate added to cron (. / etc cron daily/logrotate) as a daily task execution. With logrotate automatically, I don’t want to write my own log cutting scripts anymore.

Tomcat log catalina.out log cut as follows

# ls -lh /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www 14M Aug 28 15:55 /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Configure logrotate to catalina.out log cutting

# cat /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat
/usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out {
daily
rotate 5
missingok
dateext
compress
notifempty
copytruncate
}

Details of parameters:

daily specifies a daily dump cycle rotate 5 specifies the number of times the log file was dumped before it was deleted, 0 for no backups and 5 for keeping 5 backups missingok ignores this warning if the log does not exist dateext file suffix is the date format, that is, the cut file is: xxx.log-20150828.gz compress compressed the logs after the dump through gzip (gzip-d xxx.gz) notifempty is not dumped if it is empty copytruncate is used for log files that are still open to back up and truncate the current log

Immediately truncate the log:

# logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat

The effect is as follows:

# ls -lh /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www  0 Aug 28 16:00 /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www 1.1M Aug 28 16:00 /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out-20150828.gz

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