Re: Logging in Tomcat 4.1.27

[Christian Geisert <christian.geisert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Pinsky wrote:
> Hi,
> We are in a process of upgrading from Tomcat3.2.2 to Tomcat4.1.27. I have a question about logging in Tomcat. I configured server.xml to point context logging to specific file name in logs directory something like:
> <Context path="/mydir" docBase="mydir" debug="0"
>                  reloadable="false" crossContext="false">
>           <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>                      prefix="mydir_log." suffix=".txt" logVerbosityLevel="WARNING"
>         	  timestamp="true"/> 
>         </Context>
> I want my System.out.println messages printed from this context go to this file, but it is not the case, they go to general catalina.out.
> Also does anybody knows how to stop [INFO] level messages being 
posted to catalina.out

Tomcat redirects System.out and System.err (see catalina.sh):
..
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \
  >> "$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 &
..

It really depends how these messages are generated.
If you are using System.out.println  I think the only way is to set 
System.out within your webapp:
System.setOut(new PrintStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new 
FileOutputStream("yourfilename"))));

But if if you're using a logger .. well, configure it accordingly ;-)

> Alex Pinsky

Chrisian