def _reset(self):
        """Internal method; reopen the internal file handle (probably
        because the log file got rotated/truncated)."""
        self.f.close()

        # modified by sarbajit
        localtime1 = localtime(time())
        year = str(localtime1[0])
        if localtime1[1] < 9:
            month = "0"+str(localtime1[1])
        else:
            month = str(localtime[1])
        if localtime1[2] > 9:
            date = str(localtime1[2])
        else:
            date = "0"+str(localtime1[2])
        logfile_name = "applog."+year+"-"+month+"-"+date+".log"
        self.path = "/var/log/" + logfile_name
        # end of modification

        self.f = open(self.path, "r")
        self.pos = self.f.tell()
        self.last_read = time()