Location and setup of logs

Rational Build Forge is made up of several components. Each component keeps its own logs.

Build Forge
<bfinstall>/db.log
Apache
<bfinstall>/Apache/logs
Apache Tomcat
<bfinstall>/Apache/tomcat/logs. Tomcat is the application server, used to run the services layer (jas.war) and the help (BuildForgeHelp.war).
PHP
<bfinstall>/db.log. PHP is used to run the user interface.

Log rotation

Under some conditions a component will write a large amount of data. This can be true of the catalina log files produced by Tomcat. By design the Tomcat out log is not rotated. Under unusual conditions, the out log might grow much larger than desired.

There are two ways to work around this issue:


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