diff -r dc4e6b48c321 Lib/logging/handlers.py
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py	Thu Sep 05 22:57:20 2013 +0100
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py	Thu Sep 05 18:49:42 2013 -0700
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@
             dfn = self.baseFilename + ".1"
             if os.path.exists(dfn):
                 os.remove(dfn)
-            os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
+            if os.path.exists(self.baseFilename):
+                os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
             #print "%s -> %s" % (self.baseFilename, dfn)
         self.stream = self._open()
 
@@ -343,7 +344,8 @@
         dfn = self.baseFilename + "." + time.strftime(self.suffix, timeTuple)
         if os.path.exists(dfn):
             os.remove(dfn)
-        os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
+        if os.path.exists(self.baseFilename):
+            os.rename(self.baseFilename, dfn)
         if self.backupCount > 0:
             # find the oldest log file and delete it
             #s = glob.glob(self.baseFilename + ".20*")