Nepomuk/Strigi filled my disk

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Thu Mar 5 17:04:09 GMT 2009


Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> That 20GB logfile had filled up over just 
>> over 2 days.  With the amount of data on that drive I expected it to take 
>> time.  What I didn't expect is this dreadful filling up of logfiles.  I think 
>> they will have to remain inactive until I get this sorted.
> 
> That's a bug.  As a temporary workaround, you can:
> 
>    rm .xsession-errors
>    ln -s /dev/null .xsession-errors
> 
> That is, all log messages will be swallowed by /dev/null.
> 
Not really a good idea.  However, you do need to rotate the log.  Just 
drop a script into:

	/etc/logrotate.d

I think that the attached is correct, but read the find man page for: 
"logrotate".

-- 

JRT

Linux (mostly) From Scratch

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