[logback-user] Sending log files to user's home directory

[Chris Pratt]

You might try using the predefined system properties, like:

${user.home}

see http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#variableSubstitutionfor
more information.
  (*Chris*)



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Tony Trinh <tony19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try environment variables [1]:
>
> *Linux:*
> ${HOME}/logs
>
> *Windows:*
> ${USERPROFILE}/logs    (C:\Users\Tony\logs)
> ${APPDATA}/logs   (C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming)
>
> *Linux or Windows:*
> ${HOME:-${USERPROFILE}}/logs
>
>      tries $HOME first; if it doesn't exist, it tries $USERPROFILE
>
>
> [1] http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#nestedSubst
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Donald McLean <dmclean62 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Donald
>>
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