[brooklyn_mac_guy]

I recently tried out Tomcat 4 on my trusty iMac that I'm using as a local development server and my problem is i really need to find out where System.out.println("xx") is sending it's output. With Tomcat 3 it sent it to the shell window that launched tomcat but they've changed it in Tomcat 4. I've RTFM'd but can't find a solution. The closest I've seen is redirecting messages to a log file but for debugging i'd like real time display. Does anyone know how I can get Tomcat 4 to redirect to the shell window?
Thanks.

[timster]

The log files and locations are entirely configurable in the server.xml/web.xml files, but the default install will have the System.out going to catalina.out in the /logs directory.

you can get a realtime display by doing

tail -f catalina.out

this will provide live viewing of the logs as they are appended to the file, and you can hit Ctrl-C to exit the view.

Hope that helps.

[brooklyn_mac_guy]

Thanks. That works wonderfully. I figured there was probably a simple Unix command trick that would work. My knowledge of Unix just isn't broad enough.