Setting Easy-Tomcat Log

Dear all, We used to use tomcat5 and Solr on our server. But since latest CPanel, we start to use Tomcat7 that came as easy-tomcat7. Several months passed, and everything went OK till we realized that something wrong with Tomcat's logging. Each week it generates around 3GB of log, which if we look at our transaction, it absolutely make sense. But that's not what we need. Tomcat seems to log EVERYTHING. What we need is Tomcat only log warnings and errors. That's it. So I checked Tomcat's config to look how Tomcat sets it's log configuration. I found two files at /usr/local/easy/share/easy-tomcat7/conf which are logging.properties


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and log4j.properties

log4j.rootLogger=debug, R
log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.R.File=${catalina.home}/logs/tomcat.log
log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina=DEBUG, R
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]=DEBUG, R
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core=DEBUG, R
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.session=DEBUG, R



So I start editing everything that says "INFO", "DEBUG", or "FINE" and set it to "WARNING". I restart easy-tomcat7 service


# /etc/init.d/easy-tomcat7 restart



and....... nothing. Tomcat still do logging in light speed. Did I missed something? 
How should I change Tomcat's logging behavior to log only warnings and errors?

Any help appreciated.

Regards,

Yoachan

cPanelMichael

June 13, 2014 17:19

Hello :) The log4j.properties file indicates that maximum file size should be 10MB. Could you verify which particular log file has reached 3GB? Thank you.

yoachan

June 16, 2014 03:20

Dead Michael, Thank you for your reply, and sorry for my late reply. Here are log sizes as for now


     532M catalina.err
     2.2M  catalina.out
     497M localhost_access.log

Basically catalina.err and localhost_access.log can reach Gigs, usually 2-3 GB each week. Regards, YoChan

June 17, 2014 17:00

Please open a support ticket so we can take a closer look. While Tomcat administration falls outside the scope of support, we should be able to determine if the default Tomcat logging configuration is working as intended. You can post the ticket number here so we can update this thread with the outcome. Thank you.

June 18, 2014 04:42

Dear Michael, Thank you for your suggestion. I have posted a ticket, and the ticket id is 5113103. Regards, YoChan PS. seems that I can't edit my previous post, and sorry for my greeting 'Dead Michael' which is supposed to be 'Dear Michael'.... My apologies

June 18, 2014 10:20

Ok, just in case someone stuck with this kind of problem, here's what support (finnaly) said or conclude: [QUOTE] At least for the current version of Solr, I'm seeing the same thing you see, though it uses its own log4j.properties, and I believe it is overriding them with other means, since I still see INFO and other log types. Since Solr is not provided by cPanel, I recommend contacting Solr for support on this and a workaround since it looks to be using its own settings rather than what I set, and updates the properties file upon restarting the service.
So, no luck from CPanel side.... with doubt though.... but that's the best answer I can get for now...

Setting Easy-Tomcat Log

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