Josh, On 11/15/12 2:45 PM, Josh Gooding wrote: > That is the tomcat default log file. Nothing server wise will happen if > you delete if that is your concern. It just removes that particular log > file. I believe that you have to either be root and/or have the server > stopped to remove the file however.
On a *NIX system, neither of the above statements are true: you may delete the file while a process holds a file handle to the file (the file will no longer be accessible to any other process -- at least under its old name) without harm. I'm not sure what will happen on win32. You'll either fail to delete the file or get the *NIX-style behavior. Once deleted, the file will be re-created when Tomcat next launches, as long as the Tomcat process has "create" privileges for the CATALINA_BASE/logs directory. -chris
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