Hi,
I wanted to claim the all time maximum size for the .xsession-errors file.
My home partition has a raid1 of 2 400G hard drives. Just today my home
partition became 100% full.
I see that this was already discussed last year on debian-user so I just post
it to let people know
who will come across it again.
My main problem is not noticing it till today! Not checking my error logs :).
I see that the setting in /etc/X11/Xsession:
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ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors
# attempt to create an error file; abort if we cannot
if (umask 077 && touch "$ERRFILE") 2> /dev/null && [ -w "$ERRFILE" ] &&
[ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then
chmod 600 "$ERRFILE"
elif ERRFILE=$(tempfile 2> /dev/null); then
if ! ln -sf "$ERRFILE" "${TMPDIR:=/tmp}/xsession-$USER"; then
message "warning: unable to symlink \"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\" to" \
"\"$ERRFILE\"; look for session log/errors in" \
"\"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\"."
fi
else
errormsg "unable to create X session log/error file; aborting."
fi
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
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now we can either
1) modify the line
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
to
exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
which will overwrite the xsession-errors file on each start of X,
(idea from google somewhere)
or else
2) follow the idea of
http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater/x2548.html
if we don't look at errors (bad bad)
and simply replace
the stanza above with
**************
errfile="/dev/null"
exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
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Or else
3) set up log rotation of the .xsession-errors files in userland directories.
Should a bug report be filed?
Mitchell
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