how to exclude specific lines from catalina.out

C_ Faysal
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
August 21, 2013

hey folks.

i need to now how to set up the log4j.properties to push all lines like this:

2013-08-09 16:11:37,450 http-8080-21 INFO anonymous 971x4882x4 - xx.xx.xx.xx,xx.xx.xx.xx /browse/BPRO/component/12778 [com.domain.seraph.GwallAuthenticator] username got from gwall header: (null)
2013-08-09 16:11:37,450 http-8080-21 INFO anonymous 971x4882x4 - xx.xx.xx.xx,xx.xx.xx.xx /browse/BPRO/component/12778 [com.domain.seraph.GwallAuthenticator] got User from database: (null)
2013-08-09 16:11:37,450 http-8080-21 INFO anonymous 971x4882x4 - xx.xx.xx.xx,xx.xx.xx.xx /browse/BPRO/component/12778 [com.domain.seraph.GwallAuthenticator] User saved into session: (null)

into a seperate log file so that logrotation can be set up.

right now all these request are logged into catalina.out which causes a rapidly increasing file size...

approx 8G in 10 days....so i really need to filter these lines out and push them to a seperate file.

any idea?

Cheers

1 answer

1 accepted

0 votes
Answer accepted
EddieW
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
August 21, 2013

catalina.out probably configured as the console logger in your config. You could chaneg that, or try using filters.

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#Filters

Also see this SO question for solutions to either stop all ligging to catalina, or roll the file over.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146759/catalina-out-rolling-with-tomcat-6-0

C_ Faysal
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
August 22, 2013

Suggest an answer

Log in or Sign up to answer