boot.log location ignores jboss.server.log.dir

[frankgrimes]

Hi,

We would like to run multiple server instances from one server directory with log output going to a specified location for each instance.
So far, it looks like everything obeys the jboss.server.log.dir property except run.jar's boot.log.

$JBOSS_SRC\system\src\resources\log4j.properties currently points to:

log4j.appender.FILE.File=${jboss.server.home.dir}/log/boot.log

It looks like it should be changed to:

log4j.appender.FILE.File=${jboss.server.log.dir}/boot.log

Thanks.

[starksm64]

There is no jboss.server.log.dir property used in jboss. There is a feature request for this,

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-1156

and my workaround comment:

The bootstrap log4j.properties can be overriden via the log4j.configuration system property to point to an alternate log4j.propert/log4j.xml that put the boot.log into a different directory. With the addition of the ${x:default} syntax it may make sense to have a jboss.server.log.dir with the default being ${jboss.server.home.dir}/log

[starksm64]

The ${x:default} is only something that jboss understands, and since these references are parsed by log4j this syntax will not work.

[frankgrimes]

Hi Scott,

I guess we must have introduced our own jboss.server.log.dir in-house a while back and I mistakenly assumed it was one of yours.
FWIW, I added my vote to JBAS-1156.

Thanks for taking the time to point it out to me.