On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 11:48 AM Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote:
> >> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111
> >> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it s
* 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111
>> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started
>> grow again.
>
> Amateur. I found a 24 GB .xsession-e
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
>
> - Do you just delete it w
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 05:27, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-10-28, David wrote:
> > Yes, I don't feel that I found the full answer. Because I spent a while
> > using https://codesearch.debian.net/ to examine the source code
> > of lxsession but I was unable to find any code that referenced
> > "xsession
On 2020-10-28, David wrote:
>
> Yes, I don't feel that I found the full answer. Because I spent a while
> using https://codesearch.debian.net/ to examine the source code
> of lxsession but I was unable to find any code that referenced
> "xsession-errors" or "ERRFILE" or any logfile except
> "~/.ca
On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 07:53:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28:12AM +1100, David wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote:
> > > fuser -v "$j"
> > > [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j" && mv -i "$j.gz"
> > > "$HOME/.monitors/xsession/"
> >
> > >
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 05:33, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:28:37 +1100 David wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU
> > wrote:
> > > On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2020-
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:28:37 +1100
David wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
> > > > > It s
On Mi, 28 oct 20, 15:28:37, David wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On my system the file is rotated (renamed to .xsession-errors.old), on
> > every login as far as I can tell.
>
> > Didn't find (yet) what is doing this (using lightdm, LXDE and minimal
> > Xorg).
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity i
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:05:31 AM Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2020-10-26 20:04:55+03, Reco wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> >> - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)?
> >>
> >> (Why doesn't Debian have this automati
* 2020-10-26 20:04:55+03, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)?
>> (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?)
>
> For Debian, it may work. For RHEL, for instance, such logrotate p
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> > > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> > seen it and talked about it. What do
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28:12AM +1100, David wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote:
> > fuser -v "$j"
> > [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j" && mv -i "$j.gz" "$HOME/.monitors/xsession/"
>
> > (Script improvements always appreciated.)
> https://www.shellcheck.net says:
>
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote:
> fuser -v "$j"
> [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j" && mv -i "$j.gz" "$HOME/.monitors/xsession/"
[...]
> (Script improvements always appreciated.)
Hi, you might be interested in the info below :
my test script:
"""
#!/bin/sh
[ $? -ne 0 ] &
On Mon 26 Oct 2020 at 18:35:45 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote:
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
>
> - Do you just delet
Tixy writes:
> I guess as I never hibernate my laptop and turn it off every day, it
> never gets to an annoying size.
I haven't rebooted my desktop for three months. ls -l .xsession-errors
shows 468223. I consider that trivial and ignore it.
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
Don't do anything here. The fi
Teemu Likonen writes:
It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
Until now, I had not seen it as a problem. But it is quite large h
* 2020-10-26 18:12:43+01, Sven Joachim wrote:
> If you have a good idea how to fix that, please send it to bug
> #287876[1] or one of its siblings.
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/287876
There are already ideas and even patches in the bug report. For example
a logrotate patch was sent in 2005-02-27
On 2020-10-26 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
>
> - Do you just delete it when you
Hi.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
>
> - Do
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