Log rotate (catalina.out) of Tomcat
Rotate Catalina.out of tomcat on On Linux (Centos 7) server By default, Catalina.out file will not be rotated. To rotate it I have used logrotate. First, understand the logrotate utility Create tomcat file under /etc/logrotate.d/ using below command sudo vi /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat Press i to enable insert mode, past below script into file /opt/app/tomcat/logs/catalina.out { su myuser myusergroup missingok notifempty copytruncate daily size 5M rotate 7 } Here /opt/app/tomcat/logs/catalina.out is path to your log file. press Esc key, then : wq! to write and quite ...