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  2. JWS-756

tomcat prints logging output to /var/log/messages

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      Disable the ConsoleAppender. Note that some messages will still be printed, like flags used, etc. Those are actual output of the startup script and are around 10 lines total.

      --- /etc/tomcat8/logging.properties.orig	2017-06-30 10:37:50.171000000 -0400
+++ /etc/tomcat8/logging.properties	2017-06-30 10:38:07.499000000 -0400
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler
 
-.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler
 
 ############################################################
 # Handler specific properties.
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      Disable the ConsoleAppender. Note that some messages will still be printed, like flags used, etc. Those are actual output of the startup script and are around 10 lines total. --- /etc/tomcat8/logging.properties.orig 2017-06-30 10:37:50.171000000 -0400 +++ /etc/tomcat8/logging.properties 2017-06-30 10:38:07.499000000 -0400 @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. -handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler +handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 2localhost.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 3manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler -.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler +.handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler ############################################################ # Handler specific properties.
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      1) Install tomcat RPM
      2) Start tomcat
      3) Observe missing catalina.out and the whole tomcat log being written to /var/log/messages

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      1) Install tomcat RPM 2) Start tomcat 3) Observe missing catalina.out and the whole tomcat log being written to /var/log/messages

      After moving Tomcat to systemd service units I neglected to disable the ConsoleAppender that was previously creating the catalina.out file. Now tomcat creates a catalina.log in it's log directory and directs all other output (everything by default) to the journal (and therefore /var/log/messages on rhel-7). I think that the journal output is helpful, but flooding system's /var/log/messages is less than ideal. Should we disable this by default and let users enable the journal logging when they want on rhel-7?

            rhn-support-csutherl Coty Sutherland
            rhn-support-csutherl Coty Sutherland
            Jan Onderka Jan Onderka
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