How to capture Tomcat startup log

Question

How to capture Tomcat startup log?

Answer 1

To start Tomcat in Windows, you can execute command:

catalina run

in your 'tomcat\bin' folder. Output from Tomcat startup will stay in current window, so you can analyze it.

Answer 2

The Tomcat startup log is already captured as catalina.out in Unix and in catalina.log on Windows.