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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:23:38 -0700
From: Reg Charney <charney@charneyday.com>
To: mark <mark@cuberoot.biz>
Subject: [svlug] Re: Xfree86.0.log problem
Hi Mark,
Thanks for touching base with me. No, I have not found out how to disable
this "feature". Since you have reminded me, I am going to search Google to
see what it finds. The best so far is:
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:29:36AM +1000, I wrote:
> Anyone know how to either stop X from creating this file or reduce the
> amount of junk it writes to the log? I'm running XFree86 4.0.1.
I've found the answer. It is possible to redirect the log file to
/dev/null *if* you're root, but not otherwise. However, the verbosity
of the logging is controllable:
startx -- -logverbose 0
This writes almost nothing to the log and keeps its size down to only a
few hundred bytes. This option isn't mentioned in the man pages.
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