setting sys properties in context? yea / nay?

[William Noto <wn...@openfinance.com>]

Hi there - 

 

I have what I consider a Tomcat question but it lies somewhere between
tomcat and log4j.  I've looked elsewhere in the log4j and tomcat user lists
and I have not been able to find an answer to this one but please forgive me
if it is out there and I missed it.

 

Can I set a system property in my Context?  My understanding is that I can
set a JNDI property using the <Environment> tag, but not a system property?
The issue is that I would like to use this property in my log4j.properties
file, like this:

 

log4j.appender.fileout.File=${log.path}/logs/logfile.log

 

Any suggestions or links?

 

Thanks,

 

William