jboss-log4j.xml has this as default:

<param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/server.log"/>

jboss-web.deployer has this:

<!-- Access logger -->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log"
resolveHosts="false" />

Now, because those two variables are different, I can't easily setup logging to say /var/log/jboss because

#1. there is two different variables to define: ${jboss.server.home.dir} and ${jboss.server.log.dir}
#2. the access logger has /log hard coded to the end of the directory attribute which makes it impossible to set the two variables to the same value.

My preference would be that the default is made to a single variable ${jboss.server.log.dir} which can control everything.

jon