There are a few questions on how to rotate the output file generated by nohup
. Most of the answers say to use logrotate
with the copytruncate
option.
However this does not actually work -- when the rotation occurs, it creates the rotated logfiles ok but the original file is not actually truncated and further log output continues to be appended.
This also occurs if I don't use nohup
and just run myscript.py >>myscript.log
(so basically copytruncate
seems completely useless).
What's the "right" way to do this? (If custom script is required, either Bash or Python is preferred.)