Thanks for your detailed and helpful answer, but it does raise a few other
questions
On 17-Oct-2000 Jean-Daniel PAUGET wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> /root/.xsession-errors. Can anyone tell me how and why this file was created
> it contains every errors that any further X program will generate until
> the end of the session. very often, this file is not cleared by ending
> the X session and the next session just appends to it. so it would grow
> for ever...
since I never boot my machine and rarely have to restart X, this really does
explain why the file got big. Is it allowed to manually edit the file while X
is up to remove history, or do I have to restart X for that?
> the first point here is that you should avoid to start an X session as
Of course you're right about this (I keep promising myself I'll do something
about this), but since my /home and /root are on the same 600 Mega partition,
this would not have solved the problem of the disk filling up :-(
> yes. look at the content of the file and particularly at the end of it
> with, say, a command like :
> tail .xsession-error
Actually, I did copy the file to another partition, so after reading your
message, I used tail, cat and grep on the copy and discovered that Netscape had
written over 550,000 error messages - why am I not surprised??? ;-) If I had a
dollar for every time Netscape crashes or I have to **kill** it, I'd be very
happy.
Again, thanks for all the info
l
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