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Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"



On 11/1/06, Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> wrote:
Deephay wrote:

> I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow
> tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB
> size).
> The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port
> which adobe flash player won't work), gnash is not matured yet and
> will produce lots of error messages with certain kind of flash movies
> which can be easily found on many websites, all of the messages are
> logged in the .xsession-errors (millions of lines!), mplayer and other
> applications produce some messages as well.
> So I want to know that is there a way to turn down the verbose level
> of the error log, or should I just add an entry in the crontab to
> clean it every ten minutes? TIA!

If you never care about any errors that appear in that file, maybe
making it a symlink to /dev/null would work?  I don't know a way to
reduce the verbosity offhand.

Thanks for the suggestion.


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