* 2020-10-26 20:04:55+03, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)? >> (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?) > > For Debian, it may work. For RHEL, for instance, such logrotate policy > would be denied by SELinux. > That, and inviting running-as-root logrotate to cleanup user files opens > all kinds of trouble.
I'm using KDE Plasma desktop and my .xsession-errors grows quite fast.
I'll probably write some rotation system for the file. So far the
simplest seems to be adding /etc/logrotate.d/my-xession-errors with
contents like below. Logrotate uses the same owner and permissions as
the original file. Nothing else is needed.
/home/*/.xsession-errors {
rotate 3
monthly
compress
notifempty
}
Logrotate could be used as normal user. For my personal system it's
probably too complicated for such a small thing but there could be
configuration file like this:
# Xsession-logrotate.conf
~/.xsession-errors {
rotate 3
monthly
compress
notifempty
}
Xsession script could run a command like this:
/usr/sbin/logrotate \
--state "$HOME/.local/var/lib/logrotate/status" \
/etc/X11/Xsession-logrotate.conf
On the other hand all this is probably too complicated because the
.xsession-errors file is not that interesting. People have small
additions in their /etc/X11/Xsession script: delete the file every time
or move the old file to ".old". That would be good enough, I think.
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