'Java / Tomcat / Log4J: override log4j.properties

I have an old application written with Java8.

It is a maven application (it has a pom.xml file) but, overall, it runs inside Tomcat 8.

I have a log4j.properties file under /src/main/resources directory. Inside that log4j property, there is a property: log4j.appender.file.File=/home/customuser/logs/app.log

I want override that property when I develop in my local machine. Of course I don't have /home/whateveruser neither I want to create that folder.

I don't want edit and undo that file 'cause is under git versioning and now or later somebody could edit, push and destroy test / production servers.

I can edit my development Tomcat setup. I did try to setup a VM arguments as "-DLOG4J_CONFIGURATION_FILE="/home/sineverba/log4j.properties" (see this answer here) but seems that this particular vm arguments is not respected.

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