Re: xsession errors

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

On 15:44 Thu 15 Oct     , Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

I think I had this problem many years ago. I dont remember if it was in my old
redhat days or after I moved to debian in ?2003 or so.  I remember I had a 50G or 100G .xsession-errors file or
something like that.

The solution is simple. You must change your logging for X. This is controlled
by the file

/etc/X11/Xsession

you will see the variable

ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors

and you should see the line

exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1


now this says it keeps adding to the file
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1

if you change it to 
exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
then when you restart X it is wiped out.

or else you can just do
ERRFILE=/dev/null 
and never collect errors at all ...
But that is not wise...

Mitchell