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Re: The .xsession-errors problem

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Teemu Likonen writes:

> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?

Until now, I had not seen it as a problem. But it is quite large here, too:

~$ du -sh .xsession-errors
16M	.xsession-errors

>   - Do you just delete it when you happen to notice it's too big?

I think that would be my approach, given that it seems to grow slowly here.  
First entry is from 30 Sep 2018 :)

>   - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)?
>     (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?)

I think the policy against having an automatism is to avoid changing the  
home directory contents by anything else than explicitly user-invoked  
applications.

>   - Do you add it to your backup system's ignore list so that a
>     potentially big file doesn't fill your backups?

I do not include /home in my backups at all (except for some specific  
subtrees) because there are a lot of applications writing unneeded  
files there. Consider the various recently-used-lists, cache files,  
thumbnails, GUI settings, trash folders whatever. Nothing to backup for me  
there. I opt to keep my data on an entirely different directory structure as  
to avoid applications dumping their files next to my personal data.

[...]

>   - Why is it normal that in Debian (and GNU/Linux) you need to manually
>     delete a hidden file to keep it from filling your hard disks?

There seem to be other areas that are constantly growing, too. APT  
downloaded package files come to mind. For /home-structures it is usually up  
to the user to fix it whereas the system-wide "growths" are better handled  
by the admin...

[...]

Just my thoughts, YMMV
Linux-Fan

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The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-26 17:50 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-26 18:10 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-27 16:10 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-27 20:20 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-10-26 18:20 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-26 19:10 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-10-26 19:30 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 00:10 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-27 00:30 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 13:00 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 14:50 +0100
        Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 05:30 +0100
          Re: The .xsession-errors problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 12:50 +0100
          Re: The .xsession-errors problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 19:40 +0100
            Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-29 00:10 +0100
              Re: The .xsession-errors problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-29 19:30 +0100
                Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-30 01:00 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 01:00 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 01:30 +0100
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        Re: The .xsession-errors problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-29 18:40 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2020-11-01 11:20 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-11-01 17:50 +0100
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