Hello
Environment:
JBoss EAP 6.0.1.GA
Red Hat 6.5
Standalone and domain installations
Issue:
I can not rotate the file console.log without restarting JBoss.
Detail:
I am using JBoss EAP 6.0.1.GA on Red Hat and I would like to be able to manage the files console.log so that they do not fill up the whole disk.
Our installation writes the console.log files to: /var/log/jboss-as/console.log
A restart of the JBoss application initiates a new console.log file and creates an old copy with a date extension: /var/log/jboss-as/standalone/server.log.YYYY-MM-DD
We can deal with the other JBoss log files using something like: rotate-size value="2048"
However we can not rotate the console.log log file.
This file will eventually fill up the server hard disks.
I have searched the web and these pages but I can not find any solutions for console.log. I can find lots of questions on the web but not any solutions.
Similar unanswered questions are here:
https://developer.jboss.org/message/820003#820003
https://developer.jboss.org/message/817689#817689
https://developer.jboss.org/message/193255#193255
Other answers mention using the file log4j.xml but we do not have that file within this installation.
I have also looked at the JBoss documentation and a couple of books.
One example is this: Chapter 3. JBoss AS Crash Course
Which contains the excellent line of: JBoss provides a very sophisticated logging system that nobody completely understands.
Excellent!
The JBoss documentation does not reference the console.log file.
Anyway....
We need to be able to manage the file /var/log/jboss-as/console.log and I was hopping or really expecting that the product should really be able to to manage it itself with configuration.
Does anyone have an idea what we can do ?
Thank you.
One idea would be to use logrotate but I feel that the functionality should really be within the product, as it is for the other log files.
