title: How to clear catalina.out without disabling further logging?
body: <p>Every once in a while our catalina.out file gets very very large (yes, I will be implementing slf4j and logback in my applications to prevent this in the future). But for now, when I go to cycle the logs, I copy catalina.out to catalina.{date} and execute <code>cat /dev/null &gt; catalina.out</code>. The problem is, tomcat will capture no further logs after I do that, until tomcat is restarted the next morning, and this is not ideal. Why does this happen? And is there a way to avoid it?</p>