[Gllug] xsession-errors growing too large

[Nix]

On 7 Mar 2007, Jon Dye outgrape:
> A more general question is, what is the best way to deal with
> rotation/deletion/truncation of this log file for systems with long
> running X processes (I'm assuming it gets truncated on X startup)?

cat /dev/null > ~/.xsession-errors

(assuming you want the contents to go away)

That truncates it rather than unlinking it (and leaving the old inode to
keep filling up).

Once you *have* unlinked its last link you'll have to convince the
various apps to close it, probably by restarting X (since
.Xsession-errors is generally the X session manager's standard output
stream and there's no way to redirect stdout after a process has started
without that process's cooperation).

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