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From: "Amandeep Jawa" <deep@imagelock.com>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: What is the best way to redirect System.out in my servlets running
 under Tomcat?  
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:01:48 -0700
Organization: Imagelock, Inc.
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Ok - so I know that there are partial answers to this question in the FAQ -
but I'd like a definitive one (& hopefully a better one) & then I'll add it
to the FAQ.....  ALos most of the answers in the FAQ refer to JServ - not
Tomcat......

What is the best way to redirect System.out in my servlets running under
Tomcat?  I'd like to get the std out messages into a log file.

After searching the FAQ & the mailing list archive I tried numerous things -
but the only one that worked was the invasive 2 step process of:

1) redirecting stdout from my tomcat launch script:
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh >tomcat.log 2>tomcat.err

2) Early in my servlet source setting System.out to the same as System.err
    if(System.err != System.out)
        System.setOut(System.err);

I REALLY don't like this method because a) I have to change code, b) it
seems that now I've reconfigured the JVM & thus other java apps will have
stderr = stdout & c) there is no really good place in my code to call
System.setOut(System.err);


Does anyone have a better solution?


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