On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:56:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Rant aside, this does not work - the X kills itself on start if > > $HOME/.xsession-errors is linked to /dev/null. And deleting it afterwards > > doesn't make the problem disappear - it can still take arbitrary amounts > > of diskspace, that would be freed only after closing the file - that is, > > killing X. > > Hmm, you got me there, I had never actually tried this. > > Odd. Something is trying to seek the file?
When I tried it as root, X worked, but the /dev/null became 0600. So it seems it wants to chmod 0600 .xsession-errors.
