Change Tomcat's catalina log file name

Asked May 19 '20 at 12:45

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I'd like to change Tomcat's (8.5) catalina log file name format for the current day. I want the current log file for today to be with no date in the name and be only catalina.log because I want to watch it in Eclipse in Log Viewer. Currently I have to remove the file from Log Viewer and add the one with the new date every day. I have the server set up on Windows. I don't want to turn off the logging in catalina or change the logging in any way - just the name of the log file. I didn't find any property for this or where this is set up.

Clarification in case it's not clear: I want the rotation to remain, I want the names for the archived files from previous days to remain the same. What I want to change is the name of the currently acitve log file from catalina.YYYY-MM-DD.log to catalina.log and after its being archived to be renamed to catalina.YYYY-MM-DD.log for the appropriate day.

edited May 22 '20 at 07:57

asked May 19 '20 at 12:45

topperM

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Does this answer your question? [How to turn off all tomcat log rotation](https://serverfault.com/questions/892824/how-to-turn-off-all-tomcat-log-rotation) – Lenniey May 19 '20 at 12:55
No - this is about turning logging off - I want to change the name of the log file – topperM May 19 '20 at 15:55
No it's about turning off log _rotation_, which would keep one logfile with the same name forever. – Lenniey May 20 '20 at 06:21
You're right, my bad, but still this doesn't answer my question – topperM May 22 '20 at 07:47
Yes, because you changed it afterwards :) – Lenniey May 22 '20 at 07:49
Yeah.. I added some more clarification because I thought that it could be misunderstood – topperM May 22 '20 at 07:54

Change Tomcat's catalina log file name

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