[Zope-dev] logrotation/logreopening in ZTK-based applications

[Christian Theune]

On 11/10/2010 03:21 PM, Adam GROSZER wrote:
> Hello Christian,
>
> Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:47:43 AM, you wrote:
>
> CT>  Hi,
>
> CT>  Zope 2 provides a command to ask it to re-open its log files thus
> CT>  supporting outside logrotation.
>
> CT>  We have a ZTK-based app and found that the server provides neither
> CT>  signal handling to rotate logs nor a zopectl command. Does anybody
> CT>  remember wether this was ever built?
>
> CT>  I see an old discussion on the Python list
> CT>  (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059566.html)
> CT>  but no conclusion.
>
> CT>  If this isn't in yet, does anybody know what the right place would be?
> CT>  (I guess the packages providing the main loops and configuring the
> CT>  process would be the right ones.)
>
> I think ZTK should have a configurable log rotation built-in.
> Like:
>        <logfile>
>          path log.log
>          formatter zope.exceptions.log.Formatter
>          max-size 50MB
>          old-files 5
>        </logfile>

I'd like to keep this out of the server: rotation is a system 
administration task where I'd like to rely on the policies and tools 
provided by the system environment.

Christian

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