Comment 64 for bug 60448

This bug locked me out of a server running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64-bit with the latest updates as of 3/28/2013. I only access this server via its freenx/ssh daemons. I discovered the insane disk usage by .xsession-errors.old after my nx client couldn't get past "Authenticated" during the login process. Logging in via the console, I was able to reboot the system twice, which cleared the file. This bug is still in the wild, performing DOS attacks on unsuspecting sysadmins.

I don't want to lose the log file in case it's needed for debugging. But can we please keep it from getting this big in the future?