I'm looking for advice or suggestions for rolling log files with a daemon. I have a python script that I daemonized with http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/. Before I daemonized it it was run from a bash script that invoked the underlying python script. It ran the python script, waited for it to complete and then it slept for 5 seconds and ran it again. This was in a infinite loop. In between each invocation it checked the log file and if it was over 10MB it renamed it and then the next invocation started with a new empty log. Since each invocation was a separate run this worked fine. But now the daemonized python script doesn't exit - the same log file is attached to it forever. So my renaming of the file does nothing - the i node doesn't change and it's still logging to the same large file. Anyone have any ideas how I can achieve this sort of log rolling in this situation?
TIA! -lrry