I have no idea, how and what to set up, to have catalina.out on the Tomcat on my computer.
I use Tomcat 6.0.28, zipped-version on Windows XP. To start server I just
my experience is that these logs are always produced somewhere, even if not in catalina.out. on Linux 7 tomcat7 yum installed, my system.out.println( messages end up in /var/log/message. fine with me, as long as I can find them. found them there with grep -r 'system.out.println(' * from root directory. Command takes a long time to run.