[kde-linux] KDE Low disk space warnings

[Randy Kramer]

On Friday 26 September 2008 09:09 am, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> Well, perhaps "temporary files" would have been more appropriate. As 
an (old) 
> example: if anyone remembers Applixware, the installer would not load 
if 
> started from KDE (but it would if started from the command line). the 
problem 
> was, it would crash, write what I call a log in .xsession-errors, 
reload, 
> crash, write log, etc.. until .xsession.error filled the home 
partition. On 
> the next start, KDE would not start, because it was unable to create 
some 
> temporary files (which I called logs) in the user's home.

Thanks!

I've run into the (a) .xsession.errors problem, although I don't run 
Applixware.  I've assumed it to be a KDE problem.  (I'm running KDE 
3.4.2 on Mandriva2006.)

Anyway, to work around that problem, I've added these two lines to 
root's crontab (for a few years now):

14      0       *       *       *        echo "Cleared on $(date) by 
$USER cron" >  /home/rhk/.xsession-errors
15      0       *       *       *        echo "Cleared on $(date) by 
$USER cron" >  /root/.xsession-errors

IIRC (but I might not), it was the user (i.e., /home/rhk) file that 
caused my problem--root grows much more slowly.

(Hmm, just noticed that $USER doesn't resolve to the user name in that 
command--don't recall that I had that problem when I originally put the 
command in cron.)

I just noticed that I also have /home/rhk/.xsession-errors (soft) linked 
to /dev/null--guess I decided to kill that sucker dead. ;-)  (Don't 
really remember doing that, but I must have ;-)  (Note to myself--I 
just deleted that link to see if anything untoward happens.)

Randy Kramer
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