[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything

[Shacristo]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>

The problem is that SLIM sets stdout and stderr to the log file and
then everything started afterwards seems to inherit that unless it has
a console or sets them itself.  Because of that I once filled my hard
drive testing a program that got stuck in an infinite loop.