How to disable jira-stdout and jira-stderr logging on Windows
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Summary
When Jira is run as a Windows Service, Tomcat creates additional jira-stdout and jira-stderr log files under <JIRA_INST>/logs. These logs are in addition to Jira's own log files and are not necessary, and in some cases, you may wish to disable them to save on disk space.
Solution
Identify the name of the service that Jira is installed as in Windows (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services):
Open a command prompt from Start > Run > type 'cmd' > Enter.
Change directory to the
bindirectory of your Jira installation directory.Run the following commands which will differ depending on your version of Jira:
1 2 3tomcat7w //ES//%SERVICENAME% tomcat8w //ES//%SERVICENAME%ℹ️ In the above example, it would be
tomcat7w //ES//JiraClick on the
Loggingtab to see the current logging configuration:
Under
Redirect StdoutandRedirect Stderror, remove the value "auto" so the fields are left empty.Click Apply and OK to save your changes
After these settings changes have been made, restart Jira and the Tomcat container will no longer log further output to jira-stdout or jira-stderr. Any pre-existing logs will remain and can safely be removed.
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