 | | | file location - windows vista | file location - windows vista 2007-11-13 - By James A. N. Stauffer
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With an XML config you can access system properties like ${user.home$
}/logfilename.log
On Nov 12, 2007 2:42 PM, epic winter <epicwinter@(protected)> wrote:
>
> I have an application using log4j and in the past I have just specified:
> log4j.appender.file.File=logfilename.log
>
> This would create the file in the location where the java app was
> launched. This was in C:\program files\MyApp\logfilename.log
>
> But windows vista doesn't seem to allow my program to write anywhere in
> c:\program files. I assume that log file is not being written at all now
> because of these permissions. Correct?
>
> I guess my solution is to write the log file to a folder in the user's
> home directory. Is there a way to auto specify the user's home directory
> without hard coding it?
>
> thanks
> -ryan
>
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