Jane Young wrote:
> That's a really cool feature in Admin Console I didn't know about.
> Thanks for the details.
> There is no equivalent feature in asadmin. You'll have to manually
> rename the server.log file or you can write a script to do this.
I guess a bug in asadmin CLI.
All commands at the UI level should have a CLI alternative imo...
Ludo
>
> The Admin Console team will be able to answer the question about why
> the log file does not get rotated if the instance is not running.
>
> Thanks,
> Jane
>
>
> Jon Faldmo wrote:
>> In the Admin Console you can select an instance from the navigation
>> tree. The General Information is shown and a row of buttons is
>> displayed. One of those buttons is a "Rotate Log" button. When you
>> press it the instance logs get rotated, i.e. the server.log file is
>> renamed to server.log.<timestamp> and an empty server.log is created
>> and logging continues in a "fresh" log.
>>
>> Is there a way to rotate the instance logs without going through the
>> Admin Console?
>>
>> A second question is I've noticed the log only get rotate if the
>> instance is running. If it is stopped and I hit that button the log
>> does not get rotated. I have to manaully rename (mv) the log before
>> starting the instance. Is this how it is supposed to work?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jane Young <Jane.Young_at_sun.com
>> <mailto:Jane.Young_at_sun.com>> wrote:
>>
>> What do you mean by rotate the logs?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jon Faldmo wrote:
>>
>> Is there an asadmin command to rotate the logs? I couldn't
>> find one in the reference guide for version Sun Java System
>> Application Server 9.1_02.
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
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