El 17/9/25 a las 1:11, Michael escribió:
On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 23:25:35 British Summer Time Wol wrote:On 16/09/2025 12:36, Michael wrote:I had deleted it in the past while I was testing sddm with X and Wayland and in both cases the log file was recreated when I logged in again.When you log in, the Xserver by default creates a new log file, something like "~/.Xserver.0.log", and renumbers all the older logs to .1, .2 etc. I think it went up to .9, giving you a maximum of ten log files. So logging out and back in *should* rotate the log for you. I've got a feeling it might be set not to create a new log file if it can't find an old one, so deleting them all *might* stop new ones being created. There's so many weird and wonderful ways these things can be done :-) and XOrg is directly descended from XFree86, which is directly descended from something else, so the code base probably goes back to the 80s - and quite possibly beyond ... I wonder what standard practice was back then! Cheers, WolThe problem Dale came up to and this thread did not involve /var/log/ Xorg.0.log, but the sddm created file ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log.
chattr +i ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
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Description: OpenPGP public key
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Description: OpenPGP digital signature

