TimedRotatingFileHandler() isn't rotating at midnight?

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Fri Feb 9 09:14:45 EST 2007


    >> Rotating should happen when the logging process creates the handler
    >> before midnight and makes a logging call destined for that handler
    >> after midnight.

    Chris> Ah, then maybe I'm expecting the wrong thing.  The python code is
    Chris> invoked from cron every 10 minutes or so, it's not long-running.
    Chris> Each time it opens the same log file.  Sounds like this isn't
    Chris> going to do what I want.

Right.  Check out the logrotate facility on your system.

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