[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything

[Marek Otahal]

On Saturday 19 of June 2010 21:01:53 Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> I'm using Slim as my login manager and it's logging absolutely
> everything.  Things like gstreamer and alsa errors.  This is making the
> log file huge, of the order of 8 gb when compressed.  Can anyone think
> of a solution?  I could always use the hack of putting the logfile
> in /tmp but I don't want to do that.  /var is not on a separate
> partition and I'm not prepared to re-partition my system.  Obviously
> with such large logfiles I'm getting performance issues.
> 
> I'm an XFCE user so I'd like to avoid kdm and gdm. Are are there any
> other alternative X11 login apps other than xdm that don't depend on
> GNOME or KDE if I can't fix my issue with Slim?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Ananda
I'm not sure I get you right, but 8gb is crazy.. how about use somehow 
logrotate/cron to delete the log file?
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Marek Otahal :o)