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Out of the box Tomcat Logging has a bug where after catalina.out reaches a large file size over logging stops working. On top of that if your log file reaches 2GB Tomcat will fail to start and without reporting any errors. Yes this is pretty crazy that this is not fixed.
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TBC - Research and a solution needs to be found for this. This article by SpringSource (they know Tomcat so well they created a variation with more Enterprise features looks promising". |
Research
http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-rotate-tomcat-catalinaout?utm_source=am6_feedtweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=toya256ForRSS - talks about using logrotate (there is a slice of time where the log stops working). Also has a patch to tomcat so this solution works in Solaris.
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