Op 12/11/2024 om 20:10 schreef Left Right via Python-list:
> I am not entirely convinced by NB2. I am, in fact, a sort of sysadmin
> person and most of my programs write to a log file. The programs are
> also moderately complex, so a single program might access a database,
> query an LDAP serve
Loris Bennett wrote at 2024-11-12 10:00 +0100:
> ...
>However, it strikes me as not immediately obvious that the logging file
>must exist at this point. I can imagine a situation in which I want to
>configure a default log file and create it if it missing.
This is what happens usually:
if you ope
On Wed, Nov 13 2024 at 07:36:04 PM, dieter.mau...@online.de wrote:
> Loris Bennett wrote at 2024-11-12 10:00 +0100:
>> ...
>>However, it strikes me as not immediately obvious that the logging file
>>must exist at this point. I can imagine a situation in which I want to
>>configure a default log fi
On 11/12/24 12:10 PM, Left Right via Python-list wrote:
> But, it's
> impossible to reliably rotate a log file. There's always a chance
> that during the rotation some log entries will be written to the file
> past the point of rotation, but prior to the point where the next logs
> volume starts.
> 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
