-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: >>> Thanks for the advice. >>> I looked at the files under /root, and found >>> there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. >>> What is that? Can I delete it? >> That tells me you should not be using X as root. >> >> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not >> run "certain program as root". >> > > Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer, > avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of junk > into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me running as > normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really after I removed > the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the problem.
Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFsBDJS9HxQb37XmcRAhGdAJ9kxnuBdWtSlbmwXm8DFdCNZl+hgwCg0Mx+ /htJTD1O1rGuaWva7oXCWH8= =S1kK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
