RE: Location of log files

[Larry Young]

Yoav,

        Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't work either.

        So now I have:
                 <property name="installdir" 
value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/MYAPP"/>

                 <target ...>
                   <filter token="INSTALLDIR" value="${installdir>/WEB_INF/>
                   <copy todir=${build}/WEB_INF/classes"
                          file="${basedir}/config/log4j.xml"
                     filtering="true"/>
                 </target>
        And the generated log4j.xml file has the same mixed / & \ values.

        Beyond that, I tried to manually change all the '/' to '\' in the 
generated log4j.xml file and when I ran it, it put the file under 
tomcat/bin and its name was the concatenation of all the path elements.  I 
then tried to "escape" the backslash and that worked fine!  This would 
sound like a problem with the xml parser log4j is using when it is parsing 
the "value" param and handing it to log4j.

        Oddly enough, when I changed all the backslash's to 
forward-slash's, that worked too.  I thought on a Windoze box, Java used 
the system-dependent filenaming conventions when creating a 
FileOutputStream (which is all that log4j does with the filename)?

        So are you doing this currently on a windoze or *nix box?  I can 
see how it would work in a non-M$ environment.  Thoughts?

--- regards ---
Larry
At 12:39 PM 8/27/03 -0400, you wrote:

Howsdy,
Try
<filter token="token" value="value" />
outside a filterset. (i.e. no filterset at all, just the above line
above the <copy> task.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:36 AM
>To: Log4J Users List
>Subject: RE: Location of log files
>
>Hello,
>
>         This is a question about a post from several weeks ago.  I
wasn't
>ready to try it at the time, but I saved it because I knew I'd need it
>later on ... :)
>
>         When I tried to use "filtering" as described in the original
post
>(actually, I created a "filterset" inside the copy tag), it works fine
>except that on Windows 2K it contains back-slashes(\) from my
>$CATALINA_HOME env variable and forward-slashes(/) from the subpath
info
>inside of Ant.  Then, when log4j gets it, the backslashes are
effectively
>ignored (probably interpreted as "escaping" the next character) so
log4j
>complains that no such directory exists.
>
>         Is there a way to get log4j to accept either path-separator
>character, or alternately is anyone aware of an Ant function to force
>"filtering" to use the platform-dependent path separator when replacing
>text ??
>
>My Ant build.xml looks basically like this:
>
>         <property name="installdir"
>value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/MYAPP"/>
>
>         <target ...>
>           <copy todir=${build}/WEB_INF/classes"
>                  file="${basedir}/config/log4j.xml">
>             <filterset>
>               <filter type="INSTALLDIR" value="${installdir>/WEB_INF/>
>             </filterset>
>           </copy>
>         </target>
>
>And my log4j.xml looks roughly like this:
>
>         <appender name="XYZ"
>                 class="... RollingFileApppender">
>           <param name="file" value="@INSTALLDIR@/myapp.log/>
>           .....
>         </appender>
>
>In the destination log4j.xml file, the value for the appender's "file"
>param is "C:\Java\tomcat/webapps/MYAPP/WEB_INF/myapp.log".  Any
thoughts
>???
>
>--- regards ---
>Larry
>
>
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Larry Young
The Dalmatian Group
www.dalmatian.com 



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