topic Re: Size of tomcat log huge in Alfresco Archive

Size of tomcat log huge

kludikovsky — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:30:36 GMT

I'm quite new to Alfresco, so apologize if I am asking dumb questions.My log-files "localhost_access_log.20yy-mm-dd.txt" located in in /opt/alfresco-5.0.a/tomcat/logs have a size of about 50 - 100 MB every day. And it is obvious that there is a log-entry every 15 seconds with about 55 lines each whi

Re: Size of tomcat log huge

parashiftaustra — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:01:00 GMT

This is probably Solr talking to Alfresco via loopback, which updates every few seconds. You can turn off access logs completely by modifying server.xml and commenting out or removing the following directive (and restarting tomcat):

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />

Re: Size of tomcat log huge

kludikovsky — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:04:52 GMT

Hi Peter,
thanks a lot, this will help.

Just an add-on question: is there a question to just exclude/disable the solr log entries?

Regards,
Kurt

Re: Size of tomcat log huge

parashiftaustra — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:14:24 GMT

Hi Kurt,
The only real way to do this would be to extend the AccessLogValve to include a better filter based upon the servlet or ip address.

Re: Size of tomcat log huge

sbonami — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:57:26 GMT

If I don't want to turn off access logs, but keep them 7 days instead. Is there a way to do this instead of creating a cron job?