[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything

[Allan McRae]

On 20/06/10 05:01, 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.

How old is the log file.  I use slim and it is getting rotated 
frequently enough that it is only ~200MB at the worst.

Allan