Rotate Tomcat catalina.out
If catalina.out becomes bulky in size, tomcat crashes and fails to start without any error message.
To avoid this scenario you should rotate catalina.out frequently.
Step - 1)create file [any directory] with name "tomcatrotate"
Step - 2)
add content
/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.67/logs/catalina.out {
compress
copytruncate
daily
dateext
dateformat %Y-%m-%d
extension .out
missingok
rotate 14
size 100k
su root root
}
Step – 3)
after move to - /etc/logrotate.d/
sudo cp -i /home/minesh/Downloads/tomcatrotate /etc/logrotate.d/
Step - 4)
change the permission 777 to 644
sudo chmod -R 644 lportal
Step – 5)
after this test with below command it will do empty catalina.out and create its catalina2016-11-11.out.gz.
sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -vf -s /var/log/logrotate-status /etc/logrotate.d/tomcatrotate
special thanks : https://masterinwebdev.blogspot.in/2016/11/tomcat-catalina.html
