hi wendy, have you tried this :
log4j.appender.daily.File==${catalina.home}/logs/myFile.txt uli Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED] An: "'Log4J Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> edu> Kopie: Thema: RE: Specifying log file location when moving from development to production 04.07.03 00:42 Bitte antworten an "Log4J Users List" Yoav wrote: > Another approach is to use an environment variable, e.g. > log4j.appender.blah.File=$CATALINA_HOME/logs/myFile.txt I have: log4j.appender.daily.File=$CATALINA_HOME/logs/bentest.log This isn't working. I have CATALINA_HOME set [on Windows] g:\irm\sharedsource\benweb>echo %CATALINA_HOME% c:\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24-LE-jdk14 But when I install my webapp, in the console I see: log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: $CATALINA_HOME\logs\bentest.log (The system canno t find the path specified) I also tried ${CATALINA_HOME} with these results: log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: \logs\bentest.log (The system cannot find the pat h specified) Is there something special I have to do to make it aware of environment variables? Or does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University, PA, IRM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]