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.
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