[GERONIMO-6073] Rotation and appending of console output when Geronimo is run a windows service

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.7, 2.2.1
• Component/s: commands
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)

Environment

Windows

• Assignee: viola.lu
• Reporter: Vamsavardhana Reddy
• Created: 12/Jul/11 16:03
• Updated: 02/Aug/11 03:43

Description

GERONIMO-4394 provided for running Geronimo as windows service. The console output STDOUT is directed to geronimosrv.out and STDERR is directed to geronimosrv.err. If the server is running for long, these files can grow big requiring the server to be stopped. Also, each time the server is started as service, the files from the previous run are overwritten since the output does not get appended to existing file. So, if a user is interested in the console output from the previous runs, it is lost. So, console output rotation and appending to already existing files should be a good improvement for the "Run Geronimo as a Windows service" feature.