Rotating logs

As you are probably aware, Zope 2 generates log files. Hence, we need to think about what to do when these log files grow.

Using iw.rotatezlogs on Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows

One of the tasks that could be difficult to standardize across operating systems is rotating Zope 2 log files. Luckily for us, there is iw.rotatezlogs (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iw.rotatezlogs).

Although technically not a recipe, iw.rotatezlogs makes it simple to set up log rotation.

The process involves three steps:

1. Add the iw.rotatezlogs egg to the eggs parameter in instance section.

2. Add an event-log-custom parameter to your instance section with iw.rotatezlogs settings.

3. Add an access-log-custom parameter to your instance section with iw.rotatezlogs settings.

In 05-deployment-maintenance-rotate.cfg, we have the following:

[buildout]
extends = 05-deployment-maintenance-cron2.cfg

[instance]
eggs += iw.rotatezlogs
event-log-custom =
    %import iw.rotatezlogs
    <rotatelogfile>
        path ${buildout...