Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest? > Perhaps your '>>' ought to be '>'?
Whoops, yes indeed. I had some debugging prints like "starting session on $(date)" there and forgot >>. Fixed version is attached.
>From d1df83712f29dc7ffe2203f38efdd290fbac6535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:25:54 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Keep only last 512 KiB of .xsession-errors --- debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession b/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession index 6ad7d6e..6145389 100755 --- a/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession +++ b/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession @@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ else errormsg "unable to create X session log/error file; aborting." fi +if ERRFILETMP=$(tempfile 2> /dev/null); then + # Keep only last 512 KiB of $ERRFILE + tail --bytes 524288 "$ERRFILE" > "$ERRFILETMP" + cat "$ERRFILETMP" > "$ERRFILE" + rm -f "$ERRFILETMP" +fi + exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 echo "$PROGNAME: X session started for $LOGNAME at $(date)" -- 1.7.1
