<div dir="ltr">You might try using the predefined system properties, like:<div><br></div><div style>${user.home}</div><div style><br></div><div style>see <a href="http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#variableSubstitution">http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#variableSubstitution</a> for more information.</div>

<div style>  (*Chris*)</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Tony Trinh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony19@gmail.com" target="_blank">tony19@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Try <span></span><a></a><span></span>environment variables [1]:<br><br><b>Linux:</b><br>

<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">${HOME}/logs</span><br>

<br></div><b>Windows:</b><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">${USERPROFILE}/logs</span>    (C:\Users\Tony\logs)<br></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">${APPDATA}/logs</span>   (C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming)<br>



<br></div><div><b>Linux or Windows:</b><br></div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">${HOME:-${USERPROFILE}}/logs</span><br></div><br>     tries $HOME first; if it doesn't exist, it tries $USERPROFILE<br>


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<br>[1] <a href="http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#nestedSubst" target="_blank">http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#nestedSubst</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

<div><div class="h5">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Donald McLean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmclean62@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmclean62@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I'm using a TimeBasedRollingPolicy for an app that may be run under different user names and I need the files to go to a "logs" directory in the running user's home directory "~/logs". Using "~/logs/" doesn't work in the <fileNamePattern>, but is there anything that will work?<div>




<br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Donald</div></div>
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