on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:06:21AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry@home.com) wrote: > > On 05-Oct-2001 David Purton wrote: > > at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an > > enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in > > size). > > > > it seemed to contain binary junk, but I've delete it now (needed to > > download my mail :) ) > > > > what would cause this? > > > > this file contains any output on stderr durected to the tty X was > started on. So any program started via the menu system or via your > xinit/xsession script. Note that you want to empty such a file, not delete it -- if the file is open for writing, you aren't clearing the data, just losing the filehandle to manipulate it: $ cat /dev/null > logfile ...will zero out the file. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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