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

[Jeff B. <jef...@me...>]

I vote for 1, with the caveat that the suffix or prefix is
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.

But yes, 2 would be more in line with standard daemons.  I tend not
to think of a chat server as a standard daemon I guess.

> 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.