How to configure tomcat to rollover catalina.log log files

Question

i managed to authenticate a user through Active Directory with this code

 DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry(ADPath, domainAndUsername, password);
            object obj = entry.NativeObject;
            DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
            search.Filter = "(SAMAccountName=" + username + ")";
            search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");
            SearchResult result = search.FindOne();
            if (null == result)
            {
                return "false";
            }

after if user is authenticated i want to create authorization rule for this user to block access to ApiControllers that i have

how can i do that ?

Thanks for helping!

Solution

You are using the FileHandler, documented here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/juli/FileHandler.html It does not have a "limit" property, it only rotates at day changes.

You can configure tomcat to use log4j which is more flexible, see this page: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html#Using_Log4j

swallowOutput in context is not recommended for use (that's what the above page says)

Comments

[AndreasM]

Never used tomcat on windows, but I think this is just stdout/stderr and they aren't redirected in the logging.properties. You can check that if you change the file location in logging.properties. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html In my view you need a windows solution for logrotation like http://www.sprint.net.au/~terbut/usefulbox/apachelogrot.htm or fiddle with the tomcat service to redirect it to eventlog.

[Srinivas]

I'm actually redirecting the stdout/stderr messages to catalina.log with giveing swallowoutput=true in context element of server.xml.