On Thursday 05 March 2009 17:54:23 Randy Kramer wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:09 pm, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > ok - I tailed that into a new .xsession-errors and deleted (not > > moved) the old > > > > file. df doesn't show the space reclaimed, though. Log out - no > > that didn't > > > > free it up. Reboot - yes! I now have 20GB free in /home. > > > > lsof is your friend :-). You shouldn't need to reboot, but you might > > need to hard-kill X or some such. (The file won't actually go away > > until > > > nothing has it opened.) > > I have a line like the following in my (well, actually my root) crontab > (currently for once a day execution). (Clearly, if it was needed, it > could be run more often): > > echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > /home/<user>/.xsession-errors > > This seems to immediately reduce the size of the crontab file without > rebooting or killing X. > As far as I can see a new file is created at each login. What's more, it doesn't version it. I was hoping that by saving the tail of the file to a clean one I would be able to examine the final entries once I'd rebooted to clear out anything left around, but no, there is no .xsession-errors_1 or anything like that. Just a new file. > Someone else (was it Anne?), mentioned something about "tailing" the > file? What do you actually do? > Tail lets you see the final entries of the file. The default is 10, so tail .xsession-errors would show you the last 10 lines. tail -50 .xsession-errors would show you the last 50 lines and tail -50 .xsession-errors > .xsession-errors.sav would put those 50 lines into a text file. That's what I should have done, instead of just letting it overwrite itself. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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