how to get hold of JBoss logger configuration from an application

[frank_luo]

I configured log files as Rotating File Handlers, and we need read old log files back for further processing, hence there is a need to know the file's locatoin/path/name/postfix etc.

So I'd like to know if there is a way to get hold of the logger's configuration, otherwise I have to hard-code it somewhere then the files couldn't be found if file name changed throught Admin console.

[jamezp]

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're after, but if you want the log directory it looks like it's stored in a system property.

final String logDir = System.getProperty("jboss.server.log.dir");

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James R. Perkins

[frank_luo]

Thank James for quick reply.

My company has a hard rule to log everything to /var/log/ directory, so I have to use the following to re-direct the logger to the directory.

	<paths>
	<path name="my.log.dir" path="/var/log/jboss"/>
	</paths>

and

<periodic-rotating-file-handler ...> <file relative-to="my.log.dir" path="my.log"/>

So the technique you illustrated here won't work.

Is there a way to get around this? Or it will also be great if you know how to customize "jboss.server.log.dir".

[jamezp]

Frank,

You can definitely override the servers log directory if you want all logs to go to a different location. To test it just pass -Djboss.server.log.dir=/var/log/jboss. If that works, then you could just add that to the JAVA_OPTS on the standalone.conf.

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James R. Perkins