I know I need to use *DOMConfigurator. setParameter(Element <http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Element.html> elem,
PropertySetter <http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/config/PropertySetter.html> propSetter, Properties <http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html> props) * * * *But I have not been able to figure out what the 3 parms would equate to.* * * *The PrpoertySetter I guess would be something like propSetter.setProperty(name, value)* * * *and in my case the name would be "File" and the value the path and file name.* * * *But what must the Element and Properties values be.* * * *Regards* * * *Hendry* * * On 20 March 2010 02:11, Curt Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure exactly what you mean by start path, but you use do > > <param name="file" value="${user.dir}/filename.log"/> > > which would evaluate to the current working directory when the > configuration is read or you could use your own property (set on command > line or using System.setProperty() before configuration) instead of > user.dir. > > Otherwise, you would need to find the appender, likely by getting a known > logger and then querying its attached appenders, cast the appender to a > specific appender class, call the setFile() and activateOptions method. > Would be a lot messier. > > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:05 AM, AcidDragon wrote: > > > I use an xml file to configure my logger, how can I change the > > dailyrollingfileappender file path from my java program? > > > > The reason I want to change it is that the program may be installed in > > various paths for different deployments, so I do not want to hardcode the > > location of the log file in my log4j.xml, I want to change it to the > start > > path of my java class file. I already get the start path so I just need > to > > understand how to reconfigure the file path. > > > > Thanks > > > > Hendry > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
