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jstart (jsub -continuous) will likely cause log files to grow rapidly over time.

Though it is nice that it doesn't clear the files on start (so that the logs are preserved when a node goes down and the job is restarted elsewhere), it comes at the cost of logs that are never trimmed and never reset.

It would be nice if jstart had a built-in feature to rotate the .err and/or .out files (or make it very easy to set up logrotate.d for it with some kind of dotfile in the tools home directory).

Coren and I were chatting about this on IRC.

Perhaps something like this:

 Usage jstart  --log-maxage='1 week' --log-rotate='daily'

You can imagine how it would work and what kind of values it'll take.