On our Tomcat servers I regularly see warnings like below:
/etc/cron.daily/tomcat8:
gzip: /var/log/tomcat8/app1/app1.log.gz already exists; not overwritten
gzip: /var/log/tomcat8/app2/app2.log.gz already exists; not overwritten
gzip: /var/log/tomcat8/app3/app3.log.gz already exists; not overwritten
gzip: /var/log/tomcat8/app4/app4.log.gz already exists; not overwritten
I found a similar issue as discussed in Tomcat7 logrotate: superx_default_xml.log.gz already exists however an answer was never provided.
Although search for an answer I can't seem to find a solution for this problem and was hoping if someone here could point me in the right directlion.
We are running our Tomcat 8 servers on Tomcat8 servers on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.
Kind Regards.