storing test logs under /var/log/

Thu Dec 3 01:50:39 EST 2015

Hi Team ,
I would need few tips from your past experiences on how to store
the test logs
My requirement is to capture log under /var/log/ directory every time
the test is run . The test will create one small log files which are
around 1KB in size .
Here is how I plan to approach this , create directory based on
current timesamp and store the logs in it .
Sample code :
time_now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S') + "/"
LOG_DIR = "" + time_now
 try:
 retcode = os.makedirs(LOG_DIR)
 if retcode:
 raise Exception(
 "Faild to create log directory. mkdir %s failed !!!"
 % LOG_DIR)
 except Exception, e:
 sys.exit("Failed to create log directory...Exiting !!!")
1. Do I need to add the cleanup code to remove the log directory
say /var/log/test_log/2015-11-25_04-07-48/ , because we might have
many more directories like this when test are run multiple times , Iam
avoiding because the test will be run
 2/3 times max and file sizes are also very small
2. Any better suggestion for my use case.
Regards,
Ganesh