[KARAF-3042] Add a variable (false by default) to enable redirect to karaf.out

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0, 3.0.2, 2.3.6, 4.0.0.M3
• Component/s: karaf
• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Created: 13/Jun/14 09:00
• Updated: 14/Sep/18 08:36
• Resolved: 23/Jul/14 20:20

Description

Using bin/start to start Karaf means that the System.out/System.err are redirected to data/karaf.out.

The problem is that this redirection is by default (so the users may not know about the karaf.out file) and there is not rotation or so on this file: it means that, in production, it keeps on growing:

exec "$KARAF_HOME"/bin/karaf server "$@" >> "$KARAF_DATA/karaf.out" 2>&1 &

It would be great to send to /dev/null by default, and add a variable to enable the redirect (in karaf.out or any file defined by the user).