Category: Tomcat

Tomcat Log Rotation

August 3, 2010

Here’s a simple logrotate script for Tomcat:

<pre>/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/logs/*.log {
        rotate 90
        lastaction
               /sbin/service tomcat restart
        endscript
}

<pre>/usr/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/logs/*.log {

rotate 90

lastaction

/sbin/service tomcat restart

endscript

}

It should be placed at:

/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat

1 2	/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat

OpenNMS is a great network monitoring tool. Here’s the OpenNMS site: http://www.opennms.org In this case I’m going to do an install on to a RedHat Fedora Core 1 server. Here’s the installation guide: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=23937&group_id=4141 The first step is to install the various prerequisites: – Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 or later from http://java.sun.com We did a stock install of the 1.4.2_07 tar/gz package to /usr/local/. Don’t forget to export the JAVA_HOME environment variable:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_07/

1	export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_07/

– Tomcat 4 from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html We did a standard install of the 4.1.31 tar/gz package following the instructions here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/RUNNING.txt The install was placed at /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0. We added the following lines to /etc/rc.local to start Tomcat on bootup and open the appropriate firewall ports:


   # tomcat startup
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_07
   export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT

# tomcat startup

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_07

export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT

At this point Tomcat was accessible at http://{myipaddress}:8080 – RRDTool from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ We used the 1.0.49 source tar/gz package and built it using the instructions in the enclosed README file. The package

Tomcat Install Notes

July 26, 2004

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