Tomcat is dumping everything printed out to console to catalina.out by default. And with good uptimes (Tomcat is great 
) the catalina.out log could get pretty big (in my case it grew to 8Gig).
What is my remedy? Short of messing with catalina’s start.sh – piping the output to some logrotating utility instead of straight to catalina.out – here is what I did:
We’ll leverage logrotate utility, which is most likely already installed if you are on RedHat or CentOS:
add “catalina” file to your /etc/logrotate.d directory
/...path-to-my-catalina.out... {
daily
rotate 7
copytruncate
compress
notifempty
missingok
}
the trick is in using copytrancate parameter as it allows to rotate files in use by other processes – as it is the case with Tomcat’s catalina.out.
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