I use tailer for parse logs in python but it’s broken if Log Rotation on server. What decision can be used instead? tail -f in popen – it is not Pythonic way
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I use tailer for parse logs in python but it’s broken if Log Rotation on server. What decision can be used instead? tail -f in popen – it is not Pythonic way
It shouldn’t be that difficult to add log rotation functionality. For example, if you have:
You could add a callback to a function that periodically checked for the existence of the next filename. If it exists, break out of the loop and begin one on the new file.