How to prevent creating a alfresco.log file

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robobot

hello friends,
in my eclipse project i am using the alfresco web service api. every time i start my programm i will always find an empty "alfresco.log" file in my projects root folder. does anybody know where this file comes from, and how i can control the creation of the file ?
thanks in advance.
robby

mrogers

The alfresco.log file is created by the commons logging within Alfresco.

You are probably using the log4j implementation in which case you should be able to control it through a log4j.properties file.
If you are using another logging system then please refer to that systems' documentation.