Bug#402603: tomcat5.5: blocks on startup until log pipe is read

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006, Marcus Better wrote:
> Yes, except that I cut out the rotatelogs stuff from the init script because 
> it looked ugly. That's why the process is blocking now. What should we do 
> about it?

 Ah, so the situation is the result of your local configuration which
 disables rotatelogs?  This might lower the importance of the bug (it's
 currently considered release critical).

> I don't like the idea of having an extra rotatelogs process to keep track of. 
> Perhaps the output should be sent to a regular log file, which would be 
> rotated normally with logrotate.

 Agreed.

> Most (all?) log messages are logged through the Tomcat logging mechanisms 
> anyway, and end up in various other log files. I don't know what the standard 
> output is good for really.

 It's usually to diagnose startup problems.

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