Re: The .xsession-errors problem

[David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 05:27, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2020-10-28, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Yes, I don't feel that I found the full answer. Because I spent a while
> > using https://codesearch.debian.net/ to examine the source code
> > of lxsession but I was unable to find any code that referenced
> > "xsession-errors" or "ERRFILE" or any logfile except
> > "~/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log".
>
> The relevant code apparently exists in the greeter app (or whatever it's
> called) I use (lightdm):
>
>  src/session.c:
>
>  priv->log_filename = g_strdup (".xsession-errors");
>
>  src/log-file.c:
>
>  old_filename = g_strdup_printf ("%s.old", log_filename);

And the rename occurs in the next line in log-file.c:
  rename (log_filename, old_filename);

So now we know that log rotation is done by the
lightdm package:
  https://sources.debian.org/src/lightdm/1.26.0-7/src/log-file.c/?hl=28#L28

Thanks Curt!