Tomcat Application Generating too many logs

Question

I have an application which runs on tomcat 6.0.20 server on linux ubuntu server.

It generates a huge amount of logs in the catalina.out folder, most of these are generated while using the application, but are not generated by the application.

Some of the logs it generates are given below,

    Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
FINE: startElement(,,mime-type)
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
FINE:   Pushing body text '

        '
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
FINE:   New match='web-app/mime-mapping/mime-type'
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
FINE:   Fire begin() for CallParamRule[paramIndex=1, attributeName=null, from stack=false]
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester characters
FINE: characters(audio/x-mpeg)
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
FINE: endElement(,,mime-type)
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
FINE:   match='web-app/mime-mapping/mime-type'
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
FINE:   bodyText='audio/x-mpeg'
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
FINE:   Fire body() for CallParamRule[paramIndex=1, attributeName=null, from stack=false]
Apr 16, 2010 2:55:24 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
FINE:   Popping body text '

How can I turn them off? This is very important, since this a production application.

Regards, Rohit

Answer 1

I had this issue when logging.properties has .level=INFO as well.

The problem turned out to be that one of my shared libraries has a logging.properties in it as well (and this set .level=FINEST).

I fixed the issue by editing catalina.properties and making sure a directory containing logging.properties was first in the shared.loader classpath.