Using system environment variables in log4j xml configuration

Question

Is it possible to reference system environment variables (as opposed to Java system properties) in a log4j xml configuration file?

I\'d like to be able to do somethi

Answer 1

I tried to do that recently and couldn't get it to work. What I ended up doing is sending a variable at startup. So say you have an environment variable called $LOG_LEVEL:

and at startup...

java -Dlog_level=$LOG_LEVEL your_app