Log rotation with Plone

Question

The log rotation for Plone product installation would be a nice feature. What are the current best practices regarding the log rotation integration into Plone?

I found this article: http://encolpe.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/how-to-get-log-files-rotate-in-zope-with-buildout/ but as there are no documentation on plone.org I'd like to ping the community for the good known best practices not to fill up their hard disks.

Answer 1

ZConfig has support for the standard library RotatingFileHandler and TimedRotatingFileHandler. Taking an example from the ZConfig tests:

<eventlog>
  <logfile>
    path /path/to/file.log
    level debug
    when D
    interval 3
    old-files 11
  </logfile>
</eventlog>

This will roll over the logs every three days, keeping 11 old files.

You place these config snippets your buildout using the event-log-custom/access-log-custom parameters in your instance recipe. plone.recipe.zope2instance