On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:05:31 AM Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 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?)
I simply (like someone else mentioned on the list) truncate the file periodically (actually, once every minute) using a crontab with a task like this: * * * * * echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > /home/<username>/.xsession-errors Back in some day, the .xsession-errors was growing by, iirc, multiple messages every second. (This might have been in Debian Wheezy, or a Debian before Wheezy, or even in a version of Mandrake / Mandriva.)
