Bug 215456

Summary: possibility to set a max fixed size for .xsession-errors
Product: [Unmaintained] kdm Reporter: Jerome Quelin <jquelin>
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jerome Quelin 2009-11-20 18:18:11 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

~/.xsession-errors is where any notice go. however, lots of programs write in it, which can make it take a lot of space. see some bug reports about specific applications: #140995 #141586 #174365

i am aware that kdebugdialog can be used to limit what goes in xsession-errors. but since looking in xsession-errors can be interesting to find problems, i'm not convinced this is the best way to handle the problem.

therefore, i propose that kde limits ~/.xsession-errors to a fixed size, or does some routine log rotating every x hours.

according to https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45592#c4 it seems that gnome enforces a fixed size of 200k for the file.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-11-22 02:27:54 UTC 
According to the comment, gdm can limit the size. Maybe kdm could, too?
Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-02-21 11:11:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 174365 ***