Rolling weblogic.stderr and weblogic.stdout log files

Question

Is there a way of make the -Dweblogic.stderr and -Dweblogic.stdout log files, rotate by size or time? We are running into 100MB+ files because we can't find any documentation about how to rotate these files.
Thanks,
Rajesh

Answer 1

The stdout and stderr output options in weblogic apply to the jvm process using the standard unix standard in/ standard out redirection; therefore, BEA has not included a native method to rotate these files.
However, in weblogic 10, if you place these files in the same directory as the weblogic output log (not to be confused with -D=/path/to/stderr.log and -D=/path/to/stdout.log they will be rotated every time you restart the server.
The other way to get fine-grained log rotation on these files is to use a standard log rotation mechanism such as logrotate: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html
The other option is to address logging using an application framework such as log4j from a development standpoint.
As of right now, these are your only options, unless someone puts in a feature request to BEA.