[pygcs-devel] pygcs feature request: sane log handling

[Justin S. <dw...@cc...>]

I submitted this on sourceforge, but I don't know if any notification
comes out of that, so I thought I'd mention it here too.

Right now, when one restarts a PyGCS server, the previous log file
is just destroyed, since the server just does an open(fn, 'w') on the
filename.

I suggest one of the following:

1) When the server starts, if a file that would be overidden exists, move
   it out of the way with a meaningful suffix attached.

2) Append to the file instead of overwriting.

I would be more than willing to write the code for either, I just want to
see which method you prefer.  My guess is choice 2, which would then
also allow someone that really wanted to to also use a 3rd party utility
to rotate the grwoing logs out of the way so that they didn't get too
enormous.

Thoughts?

-Justin