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Re: Two questions about logging

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 Matthew Pounsett <matt.pounsett@gmail.com> wrote:

> First, I'd like to be able to permit users to do more typical log
> rotation, based on their OS's log rotation handler, rather than
> rotating logs from inside an application.  This is usually handled by
> signalling an application with a HUP, whereupon it closes and then re-
> opens all of its logs, getting new file handles (and new inodes).  I
> don't see anything in the Handler methods (or anywhere else) that
> would let me tell a logger object to refresh the file handles on a log
> file.  Is there some standard way to deal with this?

What I would do is log to syslog (logging.handlers.SysLogHandler) and 
let syslog worry about rotating log files.  Why reinvent the wheel?

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Two questions about logging Matthew Pounsett <matt.pounsett@gmail.com> - 2012-01-11 18:19 -0800
  Re: Two questions about logging Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-01-11 21:34 -0500
    Re: Two questions about logging Matthew Pounsett <matt.pounsett@gmail.com> - 2012-01-11 19:31 -0800
  Re: Two questions about logging Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-01-12 11:28 +0100
  Re: Two questions about logging K Richard Pixley <rich@noir.com> - 2012-01-12 17:03 -0800
    Re: Two questions about logging Matthew Pounsett <matt.pounsett@gmail.com> - 2012-01-14 18:03 -0800
  Re: Two questions about logging Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 17:03 -0800

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