Scott,

placing the log in ~/.maven makes sense, except when you run multiple 
mavens simultaneously.
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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
> > 
> > 
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