As you are probably aware, Zope 2 generates log files. Hence, we need to think about what to do when these log files grow.
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:
Add the iw.rotatezlogs egg to the
eggsparameter ininstancesection.Add an
event-log-customparameter to yourinstancesection with iw.rotatezlogs settings.Add an
access-log-customparameter to yourinstancesection 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...