[logback-user] About the file location in File appender

[Ralph Goers]

How does a logging framework know that it is deployed in a webapp?  I  
suppose Logback could if you were using a LoggerContext that indicated  
that.

On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Klaus Teller wrote:

> That's new to me. I don't recall that log4j is interpreting relative  
> paths this way.  In a web app for instance, I would take "relative"  
> to mean relative to the deployment directory of the application.  
> That is, if my app is deployed in ${TOMCAT_PATH}/webapps/myapp, a my  
> log file my_log.txt would be located precisely in ${TOMCAT_PATH}/ 
> webapps/myapp.
>
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:57:06 -0700
>> Von: Ralph Goers <rgoers at apache.org>
>> An: logback users list <logback-user at qos.ch>
>> Betreff: Re: [logback-user] About the file location in File appender
>
>> Relative paths have to be relative to something. It is almost
>> universal that they will be relative to the path that was the working
>> directory at the time the application was started. So in this respect
>> Logback is just being consistent.  How else would you expect it to
>> behave?
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Klaus Teller wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When i use the file appender and specify only the log file's name
>>> (as opposed to absolute path), the log file is created in the
>>> directory from which the application is started.
>>>
>>> For instance, if i start tomcat from the tomcat bin directory, the
>>> log file is created right there in the bin directory. If i start
>>> tomcat from my home directory, the log file will be created in my
>>> home directory.
>>>
>>> Is this intentional? If so, can somebody help me understand the
>>> rational?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Klaus.
>>>
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