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Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself

From Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself
Date 2024-11-14 18:12 +0000
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On 2024-11-14, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/24 12:03 AM, Left Right wrote:
>>> On any Unix system this is untrue.  Rotating a log file is quite simple:
>> 
>> I realized I posted this without cc'ing the list:
>> http://jdebp.info/FGA/do-not-use-logrotate.html .
>> 
>> The link above gives a more detailed description of why log rotation
>> on the Unix system is not only not simple, but is, in fact,
>> unreliable.
>
> Nothing in that article contradicts what I said about renaming log
> files.  His argument is that renaming log files messes with tail -F, and
> therefore broken and unreliable.  Which a pretty strange argument.  tail
> -F might not see some data during the rotation, but the log files
> themselves don't miss anything, which was my contention.  In all my
> years of sysadmin-ing I have never once worried about problems GNU tail
> might have with a file that gets rotated out from under you.  Not sure
> why the author is so fixated on it.

I really wouldn't worry about anything Jonathan de Boyne Pollard says.

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  Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> - 2024-11-11 17:04 +0100
    Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-12 10:15 +0100
      Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself Left Right <olegsivokon@gmail.com> - 2024-11-12 20:10 +0100
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      Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> - 2024-11-12 13:28 -0700
      Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-11-13 07:34 +1100
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      Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2024-11-13 21:07 -0700
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