I use ${catalina.home} and now I can get rid of my extra
log4j.unix.properties. Thx, Tim.-----Original Message----- From: Tim Shadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 2, 2003 11:03 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] log4j file path issue I think this works. A quick look at the Log4j list (like Craig suggested) turned up these threads: These seem to hit the suggestions already offered: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08056.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06026.html This one seems to be the most interesting: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05432.html It appears that you can use ${some-system-property} in your config files. We do something similar to you, so I just tried this on our setup and it worked: log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.A1.DatePattern='-'yyyy-MM-dd log4j.appender.A1.File=${catalina.base}/logs/my.log I took advantage of the "-Dcatalina.base" property already defined in the catalina.sh file used to start Tomcat. If you'd like to use a custom System property this URL http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html#defaultInit describes how to set log4j properties using the CATALINA_OPTS environment variable, though I'm sure there are sources that give more direct instructions for setting System properties for Tomcat. Hope that helps, Tim P.S. I suppose this should get posted to Log4j's list too; but I'm also too lazy to go through the signup process and setup mail filters. :-) Dan Allen wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > I am working with a jsp developer who uses windows, where I use > linux. When he checks out a copy of the application in the revision > system, the log4j.properties file is not playing fair. I have in it > > log4j.appender.default.File=/var/tomcat4/logs/struts.log > > But his path to tomcat is not the same. If I try to do > > log4j.appender.default.File=struts.log > > then in linux it tries to make the file in / and doesn't understand > relative paths. (Note: I am initializing log4j.properties in a init > servlet like suggested in the manual). > > How do I specify that I want the log file in the "logs" directory of > the tomcat installation. Even if I have to set something in the > init servlet, I will do that, but HOW HOW HOW??? argh...apart from > having 2 log4j.properties files. > > Dan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
