[Twisted-Python] log rotation
exarkun at divmod.com
exarkun at divmod.com
Tue Sep 21 07:21:09 MDT 2004
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
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