[Twisted-Python] Re: log rotation

[Jonathan Simms]

Tsai Li Ming wrote:

> 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
>
>
yes, in twisted.python.logfile.LogFile there is an option to __init__ 
'rotateLength' that is by default 1000000. So at 100000 bytes, it will 
rotate the file.