RotateLogger

default is 32 days of logs configure if needed otherwise.

config.template

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ urlTimeout = 10
 LogMessagesToFile = False
 # Logging of system messages to file
 SyslogToFile = True
+# Number of log files to keep in days, 0 to keep all
+log_backup_count = 32
 
 [games]
 # if hop limit for the user exceeds this value, the message will be dropped

logs/README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Logging messages to disk or 'Syslog' to disk uses the python native logging func
 LogMessagesToFile = False
 # Logging of system messages to file, needed for reporting engine
 SyslogToFile = True
+# Number of log files to keep in days, 0 to keep all
+log_backup_count = 32
 ```
 
 To change the stdout (what you see on the console) logging level (default is DEBUG) see the following example, line is in [../modules/log.py](../modules/log.py)

modules/log.py

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ logger.addHandler(stdout_handler)
 
 if syslog_to_file:
     # Create file handler for logging to a file
-    file_handler_sys = TimedRotatingFileHandler('logs/meshbot{}.log'.format(today.strftime('%Y_%m_%d')), when='midnight', backupCount=32)
+    file_handler_sys = TimedRotatingFileHandler('logs/meshbot{}.log'.format(today.strftime('%Y_%m_%d')), when='midnight', backupCount=log_backup_count)
     logging.FileHandler('logs/meshbot{}.log'.format(today.strftime('%Y_%m_%d')))
     file_handler_sys.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) # DEBUG used by default for system logs to disk
     file_handler_sys.setFormatter(plainFormatter(logFormat))
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ if syslog_to_file:
 
 if log_messages_to_file:
     # Create file handler for logging to a file
-    file_handler = TimedRotatingFileHandler('logs/messages{}.log'.format(today.strftime('%Y_%m_%d')), when='midnight', backupCount=32)
+    file_handler = TimedRotatingFileHandler('logs/messages{}.log'.format(today.strftime('%Y_%m_%d')), when='midnight', backupCount=log_backup_count)
     file_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO) # INFO used for messages to disk
     file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(msgLogFormat))
     msgLogger.addHandler(file_handler)

modules/settings.py

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ try:
     ignoreDefaultChannel = config['general'].getboolean('ignoreDefaultChannel', False)
     zuluTime = config['general'].getboolean('zuluTime', False) # aka 24 hour time
     log_messages_to_file = config['general'].getboolean('LogMessagesToFile', False) # default off
+    log_backup_count = config['general'].getint('LogBackupCount', 32) # default 32 days
     syslog_to_file = config['general'].getboolean('SyslogToFile', True) # default on
     urlTimeoutSeconds = config['general'].getint('urlTimeout', 10) # default 10 seconds
     store_forward_enabled = config['general'].getboolean('StoreForward', True)