[Twisted-Python] Re: log rotation
Tsai Li Ming
mailinglist at ltsai.com
Tue Sep 21 08:42:47 MDT 2004
exarkun at divmod.com wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:14:38 +0800, Tsai Li Ming <mailinglist at ltsai.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Has anyone used logrotate or simple use a cron job to send a SIGUSR1 to
>>the process?
>>
>>If I understand the twistd man page properly, the log file will be
>>rotated on SIGUSR1, therefore I'm wont be able to use logrotate to do
>>the rotation?
>
>
> logrotate should rotate twistd logfiles just fine. It shuts down a process, moves its log files around, then restarts it.
>
> Why you'd _want_ to rotate them this way, instead of just letting them automatically be rotated by twistd (which they will be), I dunno. Is there some feature logrotate has that twistd lacks that you're interested in?
>
> Jp
When you say twisted will automatically rotate the log files, how does
it do that? Will it automatically rotate the log files periodically?
-Liming
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