[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings because of ".xsession-errors" file

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Oct 20 15:31:57 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:18:47PM -0400, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> clear it out without logging out, you need to do an "echo -n >
> .xsession-errors", but even that just clears it out temporarily. If

The best way to clear a log file is: 
tal% ls -al .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 chrisb chrisb 107473 Oct 21 01:18 .xsession-errors
tal% :> .xsession-errors
tal% ls -al .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 chrisb chrisb 0 Oct 21 04:30 .xsession-errors

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