tracking/ordering log files

[nik]

On Oct 23, 11:46 am, nik <nikb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard that there was a utility for keeping files and specifically
> log files organized, but haven't been able to find anything but the
> logging class. The logging class seems to help create the content of a
> log file, but unless I am missing something, it doesn't keep track of
> multiple log files.
>
> What I am looking for is some utility that allows me to create a log
> file, say test.log, when the program runs. Then the next time it runs
> it will see that test.log already exists and will create test.log.1 or
> something similiar. Ideally it would also be able to throw out log
> files that are older than a certain date or sequence, so if we got to
> creating the 10th file it would delete the first one and so on.
>
> I am sorry for the ambiguois question, but I was told this existed,
> can't find it and would like to know if I'm on a wild goose chase and
> should just put something together myself.
>
> Thank you,
> Nik


I think it is called "logfile rotation" and see some links about
log4py, but no description of what that is.
thanks