Specify log location using Log4j

Try

log4j.appender.fileAppender.File=${user.home}/MyApplication.log

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Such config details should not be part of war file . Instead it should be in an external properties file , which would be read by one of your classes packaged into the war

>>on which server you are running this appl?

It's tcserver

How is that relevant btw?

log4j.appender.fileAppender.File=${user.home}/MyApplication.log

I tried this but it does not seem to work. Attached is how the log file looks like, is there something wrong in it?


Thanks
log4j.txt

>>Such config details should not be part of war file . Instead it should be in an external properties file , which would be read by one of your classes packaged into the war

This isn't really an option for me. This log4j.properties is provided as a part of the product (Documentum xCP in this case), I can only modify it add logging for my custom classes.

if you want a different path for windows and linux then you have to have something like configuration file that is different for windows and linux.
after reading this file at the beginning /before to initialize Log4J/ you can set the path properly in this way:

System.setProperty("logPath", "the path specified in the config file");

then in your Log4J.properties file you have to have this:
log4j.appender.fileAppender.File=${logPath}/yourLogFile.out

Hi CEHJ

Can you please try it with the log file that I had posted. I think that my log file may be incorrect.

Thank you

That's what i did try it with (hence the same package name as yours) ;)

There was a problem with the product, it was loading the wrong log4j.properties file, hence closing the question.

Thanks for your inputs.

The new package name structure is

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

It seems that they have completely refactored their API.

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Please ignore the last two comments, they were posted in this question by mistake. I can't find an option to delete these comments.

Never mind :)