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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Logrotate with catalina.out "daily compressed file is overwriting the logs" Post 302963998 by Don Cragun on Friday 8th of January 2016 09:17:35 PM

01-08-2016

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I fail to see your logic. It would appear that sometime between 3 and 7 am every morning, the current log file is closed, renamed (adding the current date to the name) and compressed, and a new catalina.out log file is created.

There is no indication that anything has been added to the renamed and compressed log file (catalina.out-20160108.gz) after the log was rotated since the renamed compress log file and the new log file both have the same date stamp. Since the daily compressed log files are all under 140Kb, it does not appear that the uncompressed log files are "big". You have given us no indication of when the file listing you showed us was made. But, there is no indication that anything has been written to either of these files since catalina.out was last rotated at 3:41 in the morning on the 8th of January.

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