Scott, placing the log in ~/.maven makes sense, except when you run multiple mavens simultaneously. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Pub Key:http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/public-key.asc
Scott Brickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/11/2003 03:22:06 PM: > Does this seem stupid to anyone else? I mean, the log files are there to > analyze maven when things go wrong, they aren't specific to the project > - so why should they end up in the project directory? ~/.maven would > make more sense, I'd think. And they shouldn't have *anything* unless > something does go wrong (or if I ask for a higher-than-normal level of > verbosity). > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 09:41, Jim Crossley wrote: > > Hi Scott > > > > Scott Brickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Maven is littering my project folders with maven.log files, none of > > > which say anything useful (just info on the running time). Is there > > > some officially supported way for me to make it put that log > > > somewhere else? Or to suppress it entirely when things are running > > > fine? > > > > I don't think so. In the past, I've solved this in two ways: > > > > 1. Write a custom 'clean' [pre|post]goal (either in maven.xml or a > > shared plugin) something like this: > > > > <goal name="realclean" > > <attainGoal name="clean"/> > > <delete quiet="true"> > > <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="**/*~,**/*.log" > defaultexcludes="no"/> > > </delete> > > </goal> > > > > 2. Modify the log4j.properties file inside ${MAVEN_HOME}/lib/maven.jar > > > > The latter option would enable you to fully-qualify the path of the > > log file to put it "somewhere else". > > > > Jim > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]