Comment 20 for bug 60448
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: SRU Proposal: Limit .xsession-errors file size to prevent disk space DoS | #20 |
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Hi Matt,
Matt Zimmerman [2006-10-31 23:51 -0800]:
> There's plenty of precedent for rotating files this way in home directories,
> using both ~ and .old. Simplicity and robustness are much more important
> than an extra (hidden) file in the user's home directory. If the user
> copied it to such a name, it was very likely for the same reason that we
> would do so, and very unlikely that it was intended to preserve it forever.
OK, if you really want me to, I do the dapper fix in that way.
However, we do it differently in edgy, and preserving old log files
even when they are huge aggravates the actual problem (i. e. it takes
two logins instead of one to actually get rid of huge logs).
Martin