Re: Disable ~/.xsession-errors by default?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Herman Robak]
> Could ulimit and UL_SETFSIZE be used as a workaround?

Not as far as I know.

> Since .xsession-errors is written to by the X server (I guess), this
> might make the X server unhappy, or even crash, once the set limit
> is reached.

.xsession-errors is not written by the X server.  It writes to
/var/log/kdm.log.  .xsession-errors is used by all the X clients.

> And that would repeat itself pretty quick unless something else
> wipes .xsession-errors out.  A size test on .xsession-errors during
> login, perhaps?

Trunkation if it is to large at login might help in some settings, but
not with programs producing a lot of such messages during one login.

But perhaps we should try first with a 1 MB size limit and trunkate
during login if it is above that, and see if it solve most of the
problems.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen