Why is my "catalina.out" 500MB big?

Question

I noticed that my catalina.out in /var/log/tomcat is this big... why? How do I avoid this?

Disable logging, maybe? Look what's in it – is it necessary? — slhck, Nov 03 '11 at 16:12
Yes it is! Is there a way to have it cut the file like log4j does? — user19203, Nov 03 '11 at 16:24
See: http://www.vineetmanohar.com/2010/03/howto-rotate-tomcat-catalina-out/ — slhck, Nov 03 '11 at 16:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '11 at 20:55

Check out the Apache Tomcat Logging FAQ, which points to a thread on how to rotate catalina.out:

On Unix I simply pipe the catalina.sh command to /usr/bin/cronolog and it rotates the log for me. See www.cronolog.org for more info...

And as @slhck points out, there are some other good instructions on catalina.out rotation.

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