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We handle this problem using the --screen option to roslaunch. This redirects all log messages to stdout/stderr, giving our code control of log message storage and rotation.

It's a good idea to set environment variable PYTHON_UNBUFFERED=1 for roslaunch in order to suppress the internal stdout/stderr buffering done by python.

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