tomcat cannot configure use of syslog

[Martin West]

Binary package hint: tomcat5.5

The tomcat daemon syslog entries do not format well and are not easily processed by tools like ossec.

The SYSLOG option is hard coded in /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5

Temporary work around:

Change

                $DAEMON -user "$TOMCAT5_USER" -cp "$JSVC_CLASSPATH" \
                    -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG \
                    -pidfile "$CATALINA_PID" $JAVA_OPTS "$BOOTSTRAP_CLASS"

to

                $DAEMON -user "$TOMCAT5_USER" -cp "$JSVC_CLASSPATH" \
                    -outfile $CATALINA_BASE/logs/daemon.log -errfile $CATALINA_BASE/logs/daemon-error.log \
                    -pidfile "$CATALINA_PID" $JAVA_OPTS "$BOOTSTRAP_CLASS"

A full solution would have support for date based log files and updates to logrotate.

Ubuntu is Desktop 8.04 at the latest maintenance level.

dpkg-query -W tomcat5.5
tomcat5.5 5.5.25-5ubuntu1.1