Hi,
actually you are right. I think we should improve our documentation here.
In meanwhile, please try this:
http://wiki.apache.org/logging-log4j/Log4jXmlFormat
Let me know if this solves your problems.
Cheers
Christian
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Wiedmann <th...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> usually in flat plain text log4j.config files global system properties can
> be defined, which may be referenced in the configuration of different
> appenders, e. g.
>
> log4j.logdir=C:/Data/logfiles
> ...
> log4j.appender.MyAppender1.File=${log4j.logdir}/MyAppender1.log
> ...
> log4j.appender.MyAppender2.File=${log4j.logdir}/MyAppender2.log
>
> I found this is a very convenient way to define (and to administer) such
> parameters only once globally for the entire log configuration and to use it
> on several references as here in the appenders configuration.
>
> How can such global system properties be defined in xml-based configuration
> files (log4j.xml)?
> Where is it documented? I'd found no hint about it.
>
> Thomas Wiedmann
>
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