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Question: How can I purge catalina.out without restarting Tomcat?

You will first need to SSH into your server and locate your catalina.out log
file.  This is typically located inside the logs directory in your account.

Once located you can issue the following command to purge the log.

cat /dev/null > catalina.out



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