[Gllug] Re: xsession-errors growing too large

[Jon Dye]

Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:04:22PM +0000, Jon Dye wrote:
> 
>> I thought that would be the case, I guess what I should have done was to
>> truncate the file to 0 bytes rather than delete it which was my first
>> thought.  I couldn't think of a good way to do this though, I assumed
>> there would be a simple command to do it (like touch) but I couldn't
>> find one with apropos.
> 
> cat /dev/null > ~/.xsession-errors should do it.

Thanks, I'll try that next time.

> You can probably still get rid of the file without restarting by finding
> a process that has it open and do a cat again in /proc/[procid]/fd/[fd_of_file]

Although presumably if I don't restart and the offending program fills
up the file again I will have a hard job finding where the space has
gone because the file no longer has a name?

JD

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