Get temp folder for logging

Question

Hi,
I have used System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") to get the temp folder. Unfortunatelly on the windows platform it returns
C:\DOCUME~1\MyUseName\LOCALS~1\Temp\while on linux it returns
/tmpso basically the slash "/" is missing on the linux.
It seems to be pretty incomatible, as to build the full path I need to detect OS version to know if I need to append slash or not. Moreover on linux I would suppose to log to the _/var/log_ directory or similar.
I there any better approach for my issue?
BR
STeN
Edited by: stenlik on Apr 30, 2008 4:38 PM

Answer 1

Just always add the slash. The filesystem should be able to handle a pair of slashes just fine.
And you shouldn't be logging to temp directories anyway. The whole point of temp directories is that they're temporary. The whole point of log files is that they're permanent.
I have no idea whether there's some system property that's supposed to be a canonical place to put log files. I doubt it, because this is the kind of thing that's typically going to be configured on a per-instance basis anyway.