Change the location of the server log file

For Windows:

If you used the install wizard to install, the pentaho.log is written to the C:/WINDOWS/system32 directory. To change the location of the pentaho.log file, you must edit log4j2.xml in /pentaho-server/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB-INF/classes/.

Modify the location as shown in the sample below, using the appropriate path to your installation:

<RollingFile name="PENTAHOFILE" fileName="../logs/pentaho.log" filePattern="../logs/pentaho.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}">

For Linux:

If you are using Linux, the log4j2.xml file is found in /pentaho-server/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB-INF/classes/.

Modify the location as shown in the sample below, using the appropriate path to your installation:

<RollingFile name="PENTAHOFILE" fileName="../logs/pentaho.log" filePattern="../logs/pentaho.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}">