[Beginner's Corner] - How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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Hello All,
I am new to this forum and need your assistance.
Our JBoss log file, "stderrwfc.log" keeps growing and its currently at 6GB. The
log file is located in the following path: d:\jboss\bin\stderrwfc.log. If we don't do
something we are going to be out of space on the server.
Where do I make this change so that log file doesn't grow anymore and how to do it?
I'm looking into how to set the service to truncate that log back to zero when I
restart the service. At the moment it is set to keep the log file and append on a
restart.
We're close. If anyone know "log4j" configuration over there, that appears
to be the key.
Any help would be greatly appericated.
Cheers
Steven
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8:33 p.m.
New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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I'm going to make a guess that you are running Linux, that you run JBoss AS as a
service (which version are you running) and that the stderrwfc.log file is the redirected
stdout or stderr file. That file is not governed by log4j, instead it is just redirected
output. There is no way to limit the size of that file. Your options are to
a) occasionally restart the JBoss AS service and between the stop and start, either delete
or move the file.
or
b) Change your service init script to not redirect stdout and stderr. You don't really
need them, any console log output already appears in server.log, or you could easily
replace the console log with a rotating file logger.
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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This is running on a Windows 2008 R2 Server, not Linux.
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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OK, then how is that log file defined? It is not one of the standard log files (the
standard ones are boot.log and server.log).
You never mentioned if you are running JBoss AS as a service. (It is much easier to help
you if you provide details...)
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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Yes, JBoss_wfc is running as a service under Local System.
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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What version of JBoss AS?
What mechanism are you using to run JBoss AS as a service (this wiki page mentions
several, are you using one of them or somthing else?)
https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-11932
https://community.jboss.org/wiki/RunJBossAsAServiceOnWindows
You never said how the log file is defined...
Once again, it is much easier to help you if you provide details.......
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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how can I tell how the log file is defined? Again, I apologize as I am new to JBoss.
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You might start by answering all of my other questions. Then I might have some clue of
where to tell you to look.
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What version of the AS ? AS 7 or EAP 6 or GA 5? You can possibly tell us what command and
configuration you are using to run JBoss...are you calling a run.bat or standalone.bat or
domain.bat and would you be able to tell us if and whether(which) any
configuration\standaloneXXX.xml file you are passing on the command line after the -c
option. Once you tell us this we may be able to guide you!
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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The STDERR log file has no definition in the log4j config.
I added the following to [D:\Kronos\jboss\server\wfc\conf\jboss-log4j.xml] to stop apache
from filling the log with INFO messages:
<category name="org.apache">
<priority value="ERROR"/>
</category>
The service was configured using [d:\Kronos\wfc\bin\jBossWinService.bat] to start the
jboss service as:
D:/Kronos\deployments\release\wfp_staging\app_server\applications\wpk\bin\jbossService.exe
-install %JBOSS_SERVICE_NAME% %JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll -server %charset%
-Doracle.jdbc.defaultNChar="true" -Doracle.jdbc.convertNcharLiterals=true
%JVM_HEAP_SIZES% %JVM_PARAMS_FOR_64% -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.service.binding.set=ports-wfc-default
-Djava.class.path=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;%JBOSS_HOME%\bin\run.jar %JVM_PARAMS_FOR_JMX%
-start org.jboss.Main -params "-cwfc" "-b0.0.0.0" -stop org.jboss.Main
-method systemExit -out %JBOSS_HOME%\bin\stdoutwfc.log -err %JBOSS_HOME%\bin\stderrwfc.log
-current %JBOSS_HOME%\bin -%startup%
Thanks,
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New subject: [Beginner's Corner] - Re: How to set the Jboss server to truncate the log file contents back to 0 when it is restarted
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OK, I see the log files in the service installation command: -out
%JBOSS_HOME%\bin\stdoutwfc.log -err %JBOSS_HOME%\bin\stderrwfc.log
So these are stdout and stderr outputs, they are not controlled by JBoss AS.
The question now is - what is JBossService.exe? (It's not part of the typical JBoss AS
release where there is a jbosssvc.exe that is used to run the service.) If you look at its
properties via Windows Explorer, what information is shown on the Details tab? It is
JBossService.exe that giverns how the logs are written to and apparently it is appending
to the logs rather than overwritting the logs. The question is whether JBossService.exe
has an option to not append but to overwrite instead.
Of course one way to reset the files is to stop the service, remove the log files, and
then start the service.
Another thing you could try is to remove the files from the service installation command
line and reinstall the service. (Or many services put their options in the registry, you
could loacte the options in the registry and remove them.)
Notice that those are the same options I provided in my first response...
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