Yes, this could be a solution I've already tried it, but I wonder whether is 
possible to set a SystemProperty before log4j is even loaded so that 
FileAppender.file=${myWebAppVariable}\${logfileName}

does make sense.

I'm just imagine a ClassLoader workaround but I can't see anything concrete.

> If you always deploy to the same location under the app server you
> could check if that is a property for the app server (i.e.
> catalina.home) that you could use as your base.
>
> On 7/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'd like that classes running in a web application would log to a file 
> > whose path is local to the absolute path where the web app is running. This 
> > means that, named ${myWebApp} my web application, I'd like to define the 
> > FileAppender file property to
> > ${myWebApp}'s absolute path . I've tried doing this by creating a 
> > ServletContextListener implementation and declaring in it a SystemProperty, 
> > but it doesnt work so far: i mean, it works but not the very first time 
> > that the web app rises, and this happens because class loader loads the 
> > log4j.jar before the ContextListener had called,I presume. Any hints are 
> > appreciated
> >
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