Grails logging all to one file - grails

Question

I have an issue when i war my grails project to deploy on my production server there is a limitation that i only log to /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out. This means that i have to make every log including stacktrace write to that one file. I've tried following other examples and it just doesn't seem to work i still get the error "permission denied on stacktrace.log"
This is my log4j config
log4j = {
// Example of changing the log pattern for the default console
// appender:
//
appender.stacktractLog = "org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"
appender.'stacktraceLog.File'="/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out"
appenders {
rollingFile name:'catalinaOut', maxFileSize:1024, fileName:"/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out"
}
root {
error 'catalinaOut'
additivity = true
}
error 'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet', // controllers
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages', // GSP
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh', // layouts
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons', // core / classloading
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins', // plugins
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate', // hibernate integration
'org.springframework',
'org.hibernate',
'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate'
warn 'org.mortbay.log'
}

Answer 1

Just modify your configuration:
log4j = {
// Example of changing the log pattern for the default console
// appender:
//
appenders {
rollingFile name:'catalinaOut', maxFileSize:1024, fileName:"/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out"
file name: 'stacktrace', file: "/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out", layout: pattern(conversionPattern: '%c{2} %m%n')
}
root {
error 'catalinaOut'
additivity = true
}
error stacktrace: "StackTrace"
error 'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet', // controllers
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages', // GSP
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh', // layouts
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.filter', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping', // URL mapping
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons', // core / classloading
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins', // plugins
'org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate', // hibernate integration
'org.springframework',
'org.hibernate',
'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate'
warn 'org.mortbay.log'
}

Answer 2

Can't help with your current problem but I suggest you change the rollingFile properties. Current setting will only give a 1kb file that over writes it's self.
try:
rollingFile name:'catalinaOut', maxFileSize:${10*1024*1024},maxBackupIndex:100,fileName:"/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out"
This will give you 100 10MB files or about a gig worth of logs.