How to rotate-log in GlassFish ?

GlassFish has a command to rotate or reset server.log file:

$GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin rotate-log

After running this command the logs directory looks like this:

/glassfish-3.1/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs > ll

total 200

-rw-r--r--  1 root      0 Jun 25 10:11 server.log

-rw-r--r--  1 root  10780 Jun 25 10:11 server.log_2010-06-25T10-09-48

-rw-r--r--  1 root  16384 Jun 25 10:10 jvm.log

drwxr-xr-x  3 root    102 Jun 25 10:02 server/

 

 

This command renames server.log file to a timestamped backup file, and leaves the current server.log file empty. I usually run this command before starting a test run to make sure the current server.log only contains logs from this test run.

For convenience, I also have an alias for it (in tcsh syntax):

alias rlog '$GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin rotate-log'

For more details, see official docs, or view the online help:

$GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin rotate-log --help