On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:39 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:35:33 -0500 > > Chris disseminated the following: > > > Isn't that the purpose of 'logrotate'? Not to be picky or anything > > > ;-) > > > > But would that take care of my .xsession-errors file thats located in > > my /home dir? > > It should take care of *any* logfile. Lot more complicated than just > setting a cron job to delete the file if that's all you want to do, but > good to know how to use (been meaning to learn myself, which is why I > suggested it, not because I'm an expert at it or anything).
Well, got logrotate setup to archive the old .xsession-errors file and create a new one, very easy, however, the new .xsession-errors doesn't get written to. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:12pm up 3 days, 21:42, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.03 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. -- W.K. Hartmann ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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