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Subject: RE: Cannot get log4j logs into tomcat logs folder using relative
       mechanism
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:51:56 -0400
Message-ID: <9C5166762F311146951505C6790A9CF80229BE26@US-VS1.corp.mpi.com>
Thread-Topic: Cannot get log4j logs into tomcat logs folder using relative
       mechanism
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>


H=
i,
Good, I hope it works.  Have a good weekend,

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:Allistair.Crossley@QAS.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:18 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: RE: Cannot get log4j logs into tomcat logs folder using
relative
>mechanism
>
>Great, that worked, thanks. By the way Yoav, I have added the
>LogFactory.shutdown() to the context listeners and will be keeping an=

eye
>on whether the ThreadDeath problem occurs again.
>
>I'll update the bug next week with my findings.
>
>Cheers, Allistair
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com]
>> Sent: 06 August 2004 14:05
>> To: Tomcat Users List
>> Subject: RE: Cannot get log4j logs into tomcat logs folder using
>> relative mechanism
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> You have to include the variable as ${varName} in your File
attribute,
>> e.g. ${user.dir}/logs/myLog.  See
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlog4j-user&m=3D108609662415067&w=3D=
2.
>>
>> However, I recommend a more robust approach.  Maybe this is because=
 I
>> dislike relying on platform-specific settings like environment
>> variables.  But anyways, use Ant to do this for you.  Have ant fill=

in
>> the File attribute value when you're deploying your webapp.
>> You can do
>> this with filter tokens and build.properties files for every
>> developer.
>>
>> Yoav Shapira
>> Millennium Research Informatics
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:Allistair.Crossley@QAS.com]
>> >Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 7:43 AM
>> >To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>> >Subject: Cannot get log4j logs into tomcat logs folder using
relative
>> >mechanism
>> >
>> >Hi Guys,
>> >
>> >Our developers use the same log4j configuration file, but
>> have separate
>> >instances of tomcat on the server. At the moment we have to
>> do a search
>> and
>> >replace for the File attribute to make sure the directory is corre=
ct
>> per
>> >developer instance.
>> >
>> >At the moment this works for an instance ...
>> >
>> >log4j.appender.ErrorsA.File=3Dd:/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25/logs/iq2-sy=
s-
>> >errors.log
>> >
>> >I have set my user.dir property with
>> >
>> >-Duser.dir=3D%CATALINA_HOME%
>> >
>> >And printing the value in a JSP gives
>> >
>> >d:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.25
>> >
>> >Yet when trying
>> >
>> ># trying to go forward into tomcat logs from relative user.dir
>> >log4j.appender.ErrorsA.File=3Dlogs/iq2-sys-errors.log
>> >
>> >give error
>> >
>> >java.io.FileNotFoundException: logs\iq2-core-actions.log (The syst=
em
>> cannot
>> >find the path specified)
>> >
>> >Thanks, Allistair
>> >
>> >
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