I will try the catalina.home because when its deployed to my web host company, i won't have access to .bat or .sh files. Thanks, Norma
-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:29 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Re: Placing file in desired path You could start up the server with... tomcat.bat -Dtomcat.home=%TOMCAT_HOME% Actually, I believe Tomcat sets catalina.home as a system variable anyway, so if you referenced ${catalina.home} in your config file, it should be resolved to the path to Tomcat. Jake Quoting Norma Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, > I need to place my log file in a desired location to move from home > development to my web host's server, so it must be an exact location. Even > simply trying at home to put it in the %TOMCAT_HOME%/logs path is not > working. The method I'm using is the only desirable because I cannot set a > variable visible to the JVM because I don't have access to Tomcat.bat, etc. > I get an error in the console immediately and Tomcat never starts up because > of the properties files. Here is > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > theHome = C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Tomcat 4.1/logs > log4j.rootCategory=ERROR, E > log4j.appender.E=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.E.Threshold=ERROR > log4j.appender.E.File=${theHome}/Log.html > log4j.appender.E.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd > log4j.appender.E.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout > log4j.appender.E.layout.LocationInfo=true > log4j.appender.E.layout.Title=Logging! > Any thoughts? > Thanks, > Norma > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
