Write Tomcat 5.5 output to one of Tomcat's log files

Question

I'd like that all the output that is shown in Tomcat's console will be saved into a file including the output on startup and shutdown of Tomcat.
How can I do this?
I looked at apache documentation about logging , Do I need to change something in the logging.properties can I trust log4j to write message from the first message on startup to the last message on shutdown?

Answer 1

Temporary workaround that I found is to change catalina.bat
from set _EXECJAVA=start "Tomcat" %_RUNJAVA%
to set _EXECJAVA=%_RUNJAVA%
so running tomcat will not open new console but use the same one and when I suspend tomcat (ctrl c) It will not close the console so I could keep read the output.

Answer 2

If you're in Solaris or similar try:

• nohup /path/to/tomcat/bin/startup.sh &

That'll write everything from the start to a file called nohup.out in the folder where you issued the command.

Don't know if that suites you thou.