William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:29 +0100, jean-frederic clere wrote: >> 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? > > We presently use start-stop-daemon. Which has some --stdout --stderr > options coming. It nastily send that stuff to /dev/null, if the > --background flag is passed along. > > We had a long time bug/feature request for jsvc. I considered it, but > elected to not go that route. If people want Tomcat on port 80 they can > do port forwarding or etc. Which allows Tomcat to remaining running as a > non-root user or etc. Nor the need for jsvc to accomplish that. So it's > kinda moot. > > But I believe the argument is that applications should do their own > stderr/out redirection and not to it external of the app. As in not via > bash/shell redirection and sending that to a log file. The app should be > doing that internally.
That is what daemon is doing. Cheers Jean-Frederic > > So if I am using start-stop-daemon, or jsvc. It doesn't really change > that aspect. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
