There is no catalina.out

java tomcat logging catalina.out
Tima picture Tima · Aug 16, 2010 · Viewed 27.7k times · Source

I have no idea, how and what to set up, to have catalina.out on the Tomcat on my computer.

I use Tomcat 6.0.28, zipped-version on Windows XP. To start server I just run startup.bat-file.

Do I do something wrong?!

Thanks in advance for any advices.

Mur

[Edited] All records (Exceptions or System.out) will be written in console window. Where to set up, that they would be written to catalina.out?

As I wrote in one of my comments, if I install Tomcat with setup-version, all messages occur in stdout_YYYYMMDD.log and I don't see, where to change this.

Answer

newtoallthis picture newtoallthis · Aug 17, 2010

Looks like Tomcat 6 on Windows does not write to catalina.out

I can see why this is happening, but not sure where to fix it.

catalina.sh has this line which sends the System outs into catalina.out

"$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1

this line is missing from catalina.bat which is why this does not appear on windows.

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