RE: Directory for FileAppender

The configuration classes do environment variable substitution, thus you
can use $HOME or something else.  I don't recall if it uses platform
specific conventions ($HOME, %HOME%), just Unix conventions ($HOME), or
whether you can/must use delimiters ($(HOME), ${HOME}).  There is some
method called "subst" or something that does it, buried in there
somewhere.

Cheers!
 
Tom Hawker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Steiner [mailto:peter.steiner@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 09:05 AM
To: log4cxx-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Directory for FileAppender

What is the preferred way of setting the directory in which logfiles are
stored? I'd like to have in my configuration file only the basename of
the logfile, the directory should be determined by the application,
depending on the user context (e.g. $HOME/logs on Unixen or
%USERPROFILE%\somewhere).

Is there another way than dynamically changing the working directory
of my application? What if I'd like to spread several logfiles to
different directories?

Regards, Peter
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