[rotatingloghandler]: How to read the logs produced ?

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Low Kian Seong
<kianseong.low at lcalink.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:02 PM, low kian seong
>> <kianseong.low at logisticsconsulting.asia> wrote:
>>> Dear people,
>>> I am currently using concurrentrotatingfilehandler to handle my Python logs.
>>> The situation is okay when it's only one log, but when it needs to spill
>>> over to the next log (I configured to have 2) say test.log.2 then I see that
>>> the output is sort of shared between the first log test.log and test.log.2.
>>> Am I supposed to concatenate all the logs together to get my logs back ?
>>> Google hasn't brought back any results, so I am wondering is it just me
>>> using or reading the resultant logs wrong?
>>
>> Since this is apparently a 3rd-party library
>> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ConcurrentLogHandler/ ), have you tried
>> asking the maintainer? (Who is evidently Lowell Alleman <lowell87
>> at_sign gmail period com>.) Could very well be a bug.
>>
> Actually the default concurrent log handler produces similar results.

That wouldn't be particularly surprising:

"15.7.10. Logging to a single file from multiple processes

Although logging is thread-safe, and logging to a single file from
multiple threads in a single process is supported, logging to a single
file from multiple processes is **not** supported [...]"
-- http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html

Cheers,
Chris