William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Recently on Gentoo I was looking to improve how we start Tomcat. > Specifically how we capture stdout/stderr output from Tomcat on start > and redirect it to catalina.out.
Have to tried to use jsvc from http://commons.apache.org/daemon/ for that? Cheers Jean-Frederic Presently due to our use of > start-stop-daemon and some issues it comes with. We are using the normal > redirection to capture the output. >> catalina.out 2>&1 > > In getting feedback to alternatives to our present approach, like that > suggested in comment #5 on the following bug[1]. Another inquired as to > why Tomcat wasn't capturing and redirecting it's own stdout/stderr via > system properties? > > Like how .home and .base are set now. > > public void setCatalinaHome(String s) { > System.setProperty( "catalina.home", s ); > } > public void setCatalinaBase(String s) { > System.setProperty( "catalina.base", s ); > } > > Which would alleviate the need to capture and redirect that stuff > externally of Tomcat. Is there a reason this is not currently done? Has > this approach been considered before? Something like > > System.setOut(aPrintStream); > System.setErr(aPrintStream); > > Where the location would be configurable via a var or etc with a default > specified. > > Basically others are suggesting I write a wrapper class or etc to > Bootstrap to set those properties there. I guess we could do that on > Gentoo. But would like to get upstreams input there. Much less I would > likely patch Bootstrap before wrapping it. > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162379 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
