On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +0000, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > > > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > > > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > > > Don't do anything here. The file is created fresh at each boot and is > > 30 lines long [...] > > Something that you're doing, or something that was done for you, is > clearing that file. Your case is not the default. By default, that > file is never cleared, and just keeps growing. Most people prune it > manually whenever they notice it getting bigger than they like, which > is usually somewhere between "once a year" and "never". On my system the file is rotated (renamed to .xsession-errors.old), on every login as far as I can tell. Didn't find (yet) what is doing this (using lightdm, LXDE and minimal Xorg). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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