From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:46:52 PDT

use something like:

log4j.appender.logfile.File=../logs/MyApplication.log

or

<param name="File" value="../logs/MyApplication.log" />

if using the xml format for the log4j properties
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