How do I change Jboss' logging directory?

[majikman]

I'm running jboss-as 7.2. I'm trying to configure all log files to go to /var/log/jboss-as but only the console log is going there. I'm using the init.d script provided with the package and it calls standalone.sh. I'm trying to avoid having to modify startup scripts.

I've tried adding JAVA_OPTS="-Djboss.server.log.dir=/var/log/jboss-as" to my /etc/jboss-as/jboss-as.conf file but the init.d script doesn't pass JAVA_OPTS to standalone.sh when it calls it.

The documentation also says I should be able to specify the path via XML with the following line in standalone.xml:

<path name="jboss.server.log.dir" path="/var/log/jboss-as"/>


However, it doesn't say where in the file to put that. Every place I try to put it causes JBoss to crash on startup saying that it can't parse the standalone.xml file correctly.

[smartsid81]

In the standalone.xml file ,

Replace the line ,

<file relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" path="server.log"/>

with

<file path="<Path to your log file>"/>

Regards

Siddhartha

[wdfink]

You might set the property in the bin/standalone.conf file which is used during start

[jamezp]

Correct. Set the property -Djboss.server.log.dir=/var/log/jboss-as in your JAVA_OPTS in the standalone.conf or pass it via the command line. Since logging is one of the first things configured it needs to be set before the paths resolution kicks in.

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James R. Perkins