Jenkins (formerly Hudson) keeps writing to catalina.out despite log configuration

Hy there

I have the problem that Jenkins keeps writing to the catalina.out which keeps filling the disk, where Jenkins is installed.

This is what I tried so far:

1. I tried to overwrite the log levels for '' (default) as well as for 'org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost]' and set them to 'WARNING'. However, when I reload jenkin开发者_开发技巧s in the tomcat (6.0.28) manager interface the '' (default) - entry is gone and the other one is reset to 'FINE'

2. In the tomcat Context.xml I changed <Context> to <Context swallowOutput="true"> which should prevent Jenkins of writing to the standard out. I guess the swallowOutput attribute would have to be inside the jenkins.war in order to work correctly.

I don't see why the standard log configuration of Jenkins has to be this verbose and I am seriously wondering how I can change the log level.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very much

Here is how to configure log4j in tomcat 6 (it's different in other versions): http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html#Using_Log4j

Note that this will not help if your executors are writing to disk. Those use a separate java process from tomcat.

The updated jenkins issue is available on this URL: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-7235 We've exactly the same problem, but no solution for the moment.