Howdy, Cool, thanks for posting your final solution! ;) Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:56 PM >To: Log4J Users List >Subject: RE: Location of log files > >Yaov, > > Arrrrgg .... why didn't I check the book before posting >that!! On page 101 of Ceki's book, the File option has a full description >associated with it, including the note about having to escape the '\' on >the windoze platform, and also about being able to simply use the '/' >instead. Having said that, it might be useful to have that note in the >javadocs too. :) > > So basically all I need to do is simply convert my CATALINA_HOME >value to use '/'. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. > > BTW, I did look at the fixCRLF task, but that operates on the >entire file, and I wasn't sure that there wouldn't be any '\' characters >somewhere else in my log4j.xml file. So, the final solution that I came up >with is as follows, and this should work on both Windoze & *nix. > > <property name="installdir" >value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/MYAPP"/> > > <target ...> > .... > <pathconvert dirsep="/" property="logfile"> > <path >path=${installdir}/WEB-INF/${ant.project.name}.log/> > </pathconvert> > <filter token="LOGFILE" value="${logfile}/> > <copy todir=${build}/WEB_INF/classes" > file="${basedir}/config/log4j.xml" > filtering="true"/> > .... > </target> > > Thanks again for all your help! > >--- regards --- >Larry > >At 01:54 PM 8/27/03 -0400, you wrote: > >>Howdy, >>Ant can handle either way, forward or back, as long as it's consistent. >>The problem arises when a single string uses mixed slashes. Ant's >>FixCRLF task works in this area and might be useful here. >> >>Yoav Shapira >>Millennium ChemInformatics >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Larry Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:57 PM >> >To: Log4J Users List >> >Subject: RE: Location of log files >> > >> >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 >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> >-------------------------- >> >Larry Young >> >The Dalmatian Group >> >www.dalmatian.com >> > >> > >> > >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >>This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business >>communication, and may contain information that is confidential, >>proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the >>individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, >>printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. 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