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Nihil
Nihil

Reputation: 44

Managing log file size

I have a program which logs its activity.
I want to implement a log file mechanism to keep the log file under a certain size, lets say 10 MB.
The log file itself just holds commands the program executed; those commands are variable length.

Right now, the program runs on a windows environment, but I'm likely to port it to UNIX soon.

I've came up with two methods for managing the log files:

1. Keep multiple files of lower size, and if the new command exceeds the current file length, truncate the oldest file to zero size, and start writing there.

2. Keep a header in the file, which holds metadata regarding the first command in the file, and the next place to write to in the file. Also I think, each command should hold metadata about it's length this way.

My questions are as follows:

Thanks a lot for your help,
Nihil.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 613

Answers (1)

mzet
mzet

Reputation: 585

On UNIX/Linux platforms there's a logrotate program that manages logfiles. Details can be found for example here: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html

Upvotes: 1

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