On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 14:28:37 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org> writes: > > this (and I *really* hate it when gnome by default limits output and just > > Can you locate where this limit is in gnome? Is it a per-app limit or > global to all gnome applications? > It used to be in gdm, was removed in 2.20.11-2. > >> How about a compromise? Could we truncate all but the last 1000 lines > >> in /etc/X11/Xsession? > > > > Sure. Or perhaps 1000*80 characters (never encountered super long lines > > as output to .xsession-errors, but could happen). > > Good point. I recall seeing binaries in ~/.xsession-errors. > > The attached patch keeps only the last 512 KiB of ~/.xsession-errors > on login. Can you test if this works for you? > > >From 5433fac367d3c14fedfc542b0710cc1399683ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:25:54 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] Keep only last 512 KiB of .xsession-errors > > --- > debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession | 7 +++++++ > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession b/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession > index 6ad7d6e..6937e8f 100755 > --- a/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession > +++ b/debian/x11-common/etc/X11/Xsession > @@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ else > errormsg "unable to create X session log/error file; aborting." > fi > > +if ERRFILETMP=$(tempfile 2> /dev/null); then > + # Keep only last 512 KiB of $ERRFILE > + tail --bytes 524288 "$ERRFILE" > "$ERRFILETMP" > + cat "$ERRFILETMP" >> "$ERRFILE" > + rm -f "$ERRFILETMP" > +fi > + That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest? Perhaps your '>>' ought to be '>'? > exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 > > echo "$PROGNAME: X session started for $LOGNAME at $(date)" Cheers, Julien
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