On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:07:48 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/09/2014, Chen Wei <weichen...@icloud.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and > >> has been growing in the last hour. > >> > >> entries from before the current boot session) entries, so as to > >> reduce the file size to content that is necessary to retain for > >> debugging? > >> > > > > If debugging is not required, redirect xsession error to /dev/null > > is another option. > > > > in /etc/X11/Xsession, find the line: > > > > exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 > > > > change it to: > > > > exec >>/dev/null 2>&1 > > > > -- > > Chen Wei > > > > > > Hello. > > At this time, after doing what I had done, that I had previously > stated, the file is still at zero bytes, so I think that it is > probably better, to leave the error handling as it is, and, monitor it > daily, to detect any change, and then, act on any changes to the file. > > However, thank you for the suggestion, which I shall retain for future > consideration. > > If you do not want it to disappear altogether, you can just prune it. I have this in my ¨/home/<user>/.bash_profile¨ file: # prune the ~/.xsession-errors file if it grows beyond 1Mb if [ $(du -b ~/.xsession-errors | cut -f1) -gt 1048576 ]; then KEEP_LINES="$(tail -n 100 ~/.xsession-errors)" echo "$KEEP_LINES" > ~/.xsession-errors fi Keeps it under control but still usable. cheers, greywolf -- It is about the Dragons - it was always about the Dragons! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140916123918.17f58b2c@babylon
