On Saturday 19 of June 2010 21:01:53 Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I'm using Slim as my login manager and it's logging absolutely > everything. Things like gstreamer and alsa errors. This is making the > log file huge, of the order of 8 gb when compressed. Can anyone think > of a solution? I could always use the hack of putting the logfile > in /tmp but I don't want to do that. /var is not on a separate > partition and I'm not prepared to re-partition my system. Obviously > with such large logfiles I'm getting performance issues. > > I'm an XFCE user so I'd like to avoid kdm and gdm. Are are there any > other alternative X11 login apps other than xdm that don't depend on > GNOME or KDE if I can't fix my issue with Slim? > > thanks, > > Ananda I'm not sure I get you right, but 8gb is crazy.. how about use somehow logrotate/cron to delete the log file? -- Marek Otahal :o)
