a very good day to all .
I am asking a question , out of curisioty , may be this seem to be a foolish question also .
This is my log4j.properties file for a Application which will be in production very soon .
log4j.rootCategory=Info, A1
A1 is a DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.A1.file=D:/MyWEBLogs/MyWEB.log
log4j.appender.A1.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.A1.append=true
log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-22d{dd/MMM/yyyy HH:mm:ss} - %m%n
As you can see the file path i have mentioned here is D:/MyWEBLogs/MyWEB.log .
(This works fine under Windows Environment )
But our Application will be taken as a war file and deployed inside Tomcat inside Linux Environment .
Inside Linux Environemnt , we are not sure about the path (That is whaere this tomcat resides there …) and also as a user we have got limited permissions , like to create a file —etc
So now my question is , what should be the best default path to be put in below line , so taht it runs anywhere in linux Environemnt , no matter where it is placed
log4j.appender.A1.file=D:/MyWEBLogs/MyWEB.log
should be
${user.home}/appName/MyWEB.log, user generally has right to write in home dir