Just got answer from the grails' mailing list.
I have exact the same jetty/tomcat env's. Spent hours to figure it out. The trick is to define the file location (a relative path in my case) as a global variable inside Config.
Groovy, customized it in the environment blocks, and use the variable location inside log4j closure. Sample code is at: denistek.blogspot.com/2010/02/grails-env....
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