iw.rotatezlogs 0.1.1

About

This product provides two additional logger handlers to the standard ones (see the doc in zope.conf) that rotate the log files.

It is not always possible to rotate Zope logs using system wide services. This utility enables to rotate automatically Zope logs (with or without zipping) using the features of the “logging” standard module.

Don’t look for new objects in the ZMI factory. All is configured in zope.conf (see Installation below.)

This is mainly useful for Windows : rotating logs from an external utility while Zope is up is not possible.

Note that the log rotation rules is based on the actual size of a log file, and not on time periods (cron like).

Requirements

Tested with Zope 2.8, Zope 2.9, Zope 2.10, Windows and Unix.

rotatezlogs does not require additional product.

Will not work with Zope 2.7.x. We should completely rework component.xml for this (contribution welcome).

Installation

$ easy_install [options] iw.rotatezlogs

Configure the rotating file logger handler

In any logger directive of zope.conf, change the handler as in this example for the <eventlog>.

%import iw.rotatezlogs

<eventlog>
  # Usual options, see the doc in zope.conf
  level info
  <rotatelogfile>
    # Required parameters
    # -------------------
    path $INSTANCE/log/event.log
    # We'll get up to 6 Mb of logs
    max-bytes 1MB
    backup-count 5

    # Optional parameters
    # -------------------
    # compression zip
    # format ------\n%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(name)s %(message)s
  </rotatelogfile>
</eventlog>

This works for other logs too (access, trace, zeo, …).

When the size is about to be exceeded, the file is closed and a new file is silently opened for output. Rollover occurs whenever the current log file is nearly max-bytes in length; if max-bytes is zero, rollover never occurs. If backup-count is non-zero, the system will save old log files by appending the extensions “.1”, “.2” etc., to the filename. For example, with a backup-count of 5 and a base file name of event.log, you would get event.log, event.log.1, event.log.2, up to event.log.5. The file being written to is always event.log. When this file is filled, it is closed and renamed to event.log.1, and if files event.log.1, event.log.2, etc. exist, then they are renamed to event.log.2, event.log.3 etc. respectively.

If you want compressed rotated log files, you can add the optional compression key parameter to the configuration. The value for compression can be:

• none : the default, no compression is processed

• zip : rotated files are zipped to xxx.log.1.zip etc.

• gzip : rotated files are gzipped to xxx.log.1.gz etc.

• bzip2 : rotated files are bzipped2 to xxx.log.1.bz2 etc.

Note that some systems or Python installations come with no bzip2 support. In such case, we use none compression as fallback. You can test the bzip2 support like this:

$ python
...
>>> import bz2

Install and configure a zope instance with buildout

The easiest way. Edit your buildout.cfg:

[instance]
...
eggs =
  ...
  iw.rotatezlogs
  ...

event-log-custom =
  %import iw.rotatezlogs
  <rotatelogfile>
    path ${buildout:directory}/var/log/instance.log
    max-bytes 1MB
    backup-count 5
  </rotatelogfile>

access-log-custom =
  %import iw.rotatezlogs
  <rotatelogfile>
    path ${buildout:directory}/var/log/instance-Z2.log
    max-bytes 1MB
    backup-count 5
  </rotatelogfile>

See previous section for detailed explanations.

Copyright and license

Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ingeniweb SAS

This software is subject to the provisions of the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0 (GPL). A copy of the GPL should accompany this distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, AGAINST INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

See the …/rotatezlogs/LICENSE file that comes with this product.

Testing

Please read the …/rotatezlogs/tests/README.txt

Download

Stay in tune with the latest releases of rotatezlogs…

Subversion reposo:

https://ingeniweb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ingeniweb/iw.rotatezlogs/

Releases:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iw.rotatezlogs

Support

Mail to Ingeniweb support

Donations are welcome for new features

Credits

The Ingeniweb team (c) 2006-2008

• Main developer: Gilles Lenfant

• Eggification: Tarek Ziade

Based on an idea by Mark Hammond.