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Re: X error log

Subject: Re: X error log
From: Scott Robinson
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:45:21 -0800
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:29:21PM -0600, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
[...]
> > Reluctantly, I agree.  It should be truncated.  It's a shameful
> > situation though.  It would be nice to somehow pipe all Gnome and KDE
> > output to /dev/null so that .xsession-errors can become useful again.
> 
> That definitely impairs its usefulness.  That's less of a severe problem, 
> though, than its unchecked growth.  Perhaps it should just be rotated (a 
> default crontab entry?) to .old now and then similarly to Xorg.$DISPLAY.log.
> 

That doesn't really work, as the .xsession-errors are in each user's
home directory.

Scott.

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