This is far from a clean or truly simple workaround, but FWIW, here's
what I've done... I thought logrotate, with the copytruncate option,
might be a reasonable hack to address that rapidly growing ~/.xsession-
errors file. (BTW, I'm running Xubuntu 11.10). Unfortunately, the "out-
of-the-box" configuration options do not allow you to specify a
frequency greater than daily, which is not good enough to address this
bug. So, I've created an hourly cron job to call logrotate (with no
frequency option, like daily, so it will run each time it's called), and
passed a custom configuration file (basically based on the "stock" one
at /etc/logrotate.conf).
You can run the following 3 commands to implement my hack-
of-a-workaround (note that the first two are multi-line commands, from
"sudo" to "EOF"). Feel free to check out the man page for logrotate for
other options, or maybe use crontab instead of /etc/cron.hourly/ for a
more frequent cron job. Also, any other feedback or advice is welcome!
sudo tee /etc/logrotate.hourly.conf <<EOF
# see "man logrotate" for details
$HOME/.xsession-errors {
compress
delaycompress
copytruncate
missingok
rotate 10
size 100M
}
EOF
sudo tee /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
# I'm adding this to get some hourly logrotate, in addition to the stock
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.hourly.conf
EOF
sudo chmod +x /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate
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remmina fills up ~/.xsession-errors when network connection is lost
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