Can JBoss read properties from a file?

[mcevikce]

Rather than passing properties with -D option can JBoss read list of properties defined in a properties file?

[norman.richards]

Try "-P my.properties".

[gamvi01]

It didnt work for me.

have created my.properties in  \appserv\server\default\conf and started jboss using -Pmy.properties.

my.properties content

chorus.logs.dir=C:/ws/logs

and i have used it in jboss-log4j.xml as

<appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">

      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>

      <param name="File" value="${chorus.logs.dir}/server.log"/>

      <param name="Append" value="true"/>

but i dont see server.log thats getting created in c:\ws\logs