-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Curtis,
(Marking OT because this has nothing to do with Tomcat). On 4/23/2010 11:06 AM, Curtis Garman wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to access the HOSTNAME environment > variable in a log4j.properties file. Basically I'm using the email appender > and would like to include the host in the email subject line so I can easily > determine which server generated the email. I can hard-code this info but I > was thinking there might be a way that tomcat can read something like > > log4j.appender.email.subject=Java Application Error (${HOSTNAME}) If you use a PropertyConfigurator (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/PropertyConfigurator.html) you can use system properties, but not environment variables. That should be easy to work around: add "-Dmyhostname=${HOSTNAME}" to your startup scripts. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvRzFYACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDagACgkWm1usi9TUZvJxD/MItGA0kR RAMAnidhGCjbFWN2PwJtj4EWxfl55dV6 =3k2o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org