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TomFrost / Bristol

Insanely configurable logging for Node.js
MIT License
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limit log file #8

Closed jimmywarting closed 8 years ago

jimmywarting commented 9 years ago

Senario: A site is kept alive for a long time or it tries try-catch over and over again and logging all kind of error. It will produce file log's of Gigabytes

It would be sweet if I could configure to have something like a limited history of 5000 set of logs or lines or bytes

TomFrost commented 9 years ago

Hey Jimmy, sorry for the late response. Do you envision Bristol switching files and incrementing some digit in the filename when a certain line count is hit, or physically removing the top line of the logfile every time a new line is written?

The former is a possibility (though you might be better served by logrotate than a nonstandard solution built into Bristol), but the latter would probably be untenable given the crazy amount of disk access that would incur.

TomFrost commented 8 years ago

Closing -- logrotate is the standard and recommended solution for this :)