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

[Adam GROSZER]

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> 


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