[opencms-dev] how-to configure a rotation log for opencms 5.0.1

[Christian Steinert]

miguel schrieb:
> Dear All,
>   I manage a site with opencms 5.0.1/Tomcat 4.1/Oracle 8.1.7, and I 
> have a problem with the log file opencms.log, this file grow too much 
> and it's impossible to manage. Anybody know how-to configure a 
> rotation process for this file?
> Have Opencms any way to do?, or I need a external tool...
>
> Thanks
>
If I remember correctly then the opencms.properties file (in the real 
filesystem under  <opencms web application>/WEB-INF/config/) contains 
some log configuration. There you can also set the maximum log size if I 
remember correctly.
I *THINK* that the log would then be rotated after reaching the maximum 
sizebut I'm not sure and I don't have opencms5 here anymore to take a 
look into the property-file.

Using an external tool might lead to problems. If you try to "steal" the 
log file from opencms then it might have trouble with continued logging 
until the next shutdown. But it's worth a try, if the configuration 
itself doesn't help. A simple shell script which you can put into your 
crontab (if it's a linux/unix machine) should help with renaming the files.

c.