Tomcat as NT Service not writing to error log

Question

I created an NT service for Tomcat and want to write output to stdout.log (System.out) and stderr.log (System.err), but instead, it's writing both System.out AND System.err to stdout.log. Strangely enough, stderr.log does get created, but is never written to.
Here is the command I used to create the service:
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\tomcat -install "Tomcat_PROD-staffsite" %JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll -Djava.class.path=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\bootstrap.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar -Dcatalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME% %CATALINA_OPTS% -Xrs -start org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap -params start -stop org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap -params stop -out %CATALINA_HOME%\logs\stdout.log -err %CATALINA_HOME%\logs\stderr.log
It used to work, but then I upgraded the JVM on the server and had to then uninstall and reinstall the service. I wasn't around for the original service installation, so I don't know if the command I used above was what was used before (since documentation doesn't seem to exist around here...). Any ideas?

Answer 1

The Job Activity Monitor reports it failed but nothing goes in the Error Log.
The Agent writes error to it's own log file, called SQLAGENT.OUT, it's also located in LOG subfolder and you also can look it up in SSMS from node "SQL Server Agent"
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