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Re: The .xsession-errors problem

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* 2020-10-26 20:04:55+03, Reco wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>>   - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)?
>>     (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?)
>
> For Debian, it may work. For RHEL, for instance, such logrotate policy
> would be denied by SELinux.
> That, and inviting running-as-root logrotate to cleanup user files opens
> all kinds of trouble.

I'm using KDE Plasma desktop and my .xsession-errors grows quite fast.
I'll probably write some rotation system for the file. So far the
simplest seems to be adding /etc/logrotate.d/my-xession-errors with
contents like below. Logrotate uses the same owner and permissions as
the original file. Nothing else is needed.

    /home/*/.xsession-errors {
        rotate 3
        monthly
        compress
        notifempty
    }

Logrotate could be used as normal user. For my personal system it's
probably too complicated for such a small thing but there could be
configuration file like this:

    # Xsession-logrotate.conf
    ~/.xsession-errors {
        rotate 3
        monthly
        compress
        notifempty
    }

Xsession script could run a command like this:

    /usr/sbin/logrotate \
        --state "$HOME/.local/var/lib/logrotate/status" \
        /etc/X11/Xsession-logrotate.conf

On the other hand all this is probably too complicated because the
.xsession-errors file is not that interesting. People have small
additions in their /etc/X11/Xsession script: delete the file every time
or move the old file to ".old". That would be good enough, I think.

-- 
/// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/
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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
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            Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-29 00:10 +0100
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                Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-30 01:00 +0100
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  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2020-11-01 11:20 +0100
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