El 14/9/25 a las 10:56, Dale escribió:
Howdy,

I was doing my backups which includes config files.  I noticed one file
was shall we say, large.  The better term might be HUGE.  This is the
culprit.



root@Gentoo-1 / # ls /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 13,905,915,860 Sep 14 03:33
/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
root@Gentoo-1 / #



I added the commas to the file size.  Obviously one shouldn't try to
open a file that size with Kwrite or anything.  It's just to large.
Heck, it took several minutes for the tail command to get this.


root@Gentoo-1 / # tail -n 100 /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
Service  ":1.6973" unregistered
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 5 and type 'Read', disabling...
ark.kerfuffle: Could not detect mimetype from content. Using
extension-based mimetype: "text/x-log"
root@Gentoo-1 / #


As you can see, I asked for the last 100 lines but it only gave me
that.  Obviously something is off with that file and maybe sddm as well.

First, I'd like to make that file MUCH smaller, empty would be OK.
Second, I'd like to stop it from getting that big again.  I tried using
echo to make it only one line.  It went something like this.


echo "" > /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log


I thought it worked at first but by the time my backup script got to it,
it was back again, hugely back.  Now it doesn't do anything even though
I'm root.  I can't seem to empty this file or really see what is in it
either.

Can someone share a better way to fix this file?  Oh, I googled.  The
info I found was people using systemd.  They used commands I don't have
since I use openrc.

Thanks.
Dale

:-)  :-)

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