: I am thinking about making *persistent* runtime configuration options : (available via SOLR admin screen)... It would be best option... Of course we : can write (global) config file and put it somewhere, even for people "who : would expect the JVM
As mike said: the admin screen isn't really designed to be a config management GUI. if you want persistent configuration for logging, there are standard places for that info to live ... if you want a custom logging configuration file for Solr, you can make one (using the default JDK logging properties syntax) and specify it when you start your JVM. -Hoss