Howdy,
I guess you're assuming log4j automatically reads environment properties
into an env. prefix scheme like Ant? ;) Try just environment variable,
e.g. $CATALINA_HOME or ${CATALINA_HOME}.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Praveen Alavilli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:22 PM
>To: Log4J Users List
>Subject: how to use env vars in log4j.properties file
>
>Hi,
>I am trying to configure a DailyRollingFileAppender for my test app.
>I want to set the log file to be in my server's (tomcat) log dir along
>with other log files. But if set the File path as
>
>log4j.appender.MyappLog.File=${env.CATALINA_HOME}/logs/myapp.log
>
>it throws this error:
>
>log4j: setFile called: /logs/myapp.log, true
>log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
>java.io.FileNotFoundException: /logs/myapp.log (No such file or
directory)
>
>Is there any ther way to get this working apart from hard coding the
>file name/dir ?
>
>thanks in advance
>Praveen
>
>
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