Re: Nepomuk/Strigi filled my disk

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On Thursday 05 March 2009 01:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 17:54:23 Randy Kramer wrote:
> > 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.  

Anne,

Thanks for the response!

Ahh, my (main) machine is on 24 hours a day and I never log out, so I 
needed something to empty the file without logging in / out.

> tail -50 .xsession-errors > .xsession-errors.sav would put those 50 
lines into 
> a text file.  

Thanks, that's the part about tail(ing) I didn't understand.  Seems like 
(without trying it) it should work just like the ">" I'm using.

> That's what I should have done, instead of just letting it  
> overwrite itself.

Randy Kramer
-- 
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I created a video 
instead.--with apologies to Cicero, et.al.
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