Jboss log file (jboss.log) in top-level directory

[renes]

I hope someone can help me with this. There are some log files in ../server/xxx/log and I have those under control, but in the top-level directory there is another one called jboss.log. It's growing rapidly and I seem unable to create a log4j appender. I tried to add one in ../server/xxx/conf/jboss-log4j.xml (which feels wrong to begin with) but no change. Anyone?

[jaikiran]

Welcome to the forums!

I think that jboss.log at the root level is created by the stdout redirection that you might be doing while starting the server as a service. Do you use the service.bat to set it up as a service and then start it as a service?

[renes]

Yes, in /etc/init.d/jboss I can see this:

export JBOSS_CONSOLE=$JBOSS_HOME/jboss.log

Must have installed it myself but this stuff is ancient (2009) so I never thought of looking there. Any idea how people normally manage the console output? Because it currently fills up the disk every so many weeks.

[jaikiran]

Redirect to /dev/null?

[renes]

Ha funny but you are right, console logging is not recommended for production (so I just read) so I removed the whole thing from the xml file, see https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossASTuningSlimming for details. Thanks for your help, I will mark this question as answered.