How to save all tomcat.service stdout & stderr in RHEL7 to a file

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Issue

  • In RHEL 7, the RHEL tomcat package doesn't save all stderr and stdout to catalina.out; instead, it all goes to the systemd journal and /var/log/messages. How can this be captured to a specific file instead?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • tomcat

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