How do you turn off XWin.log logging?

Cary Jamison Cary.Jamison@powerquest.com
Tue Sep 3 12:30:00 GMT 2002


"Barron Todd - tbarro" <Todd.Barron@acxiom.com> wrote in message news:CF113269FDACD311AA8C009027DE9D04172F7C90@cwysms00.corp.acxiom.net...
> I am using XFree86 with Cygwin and the XWin.log file grows to over 6.0
> gigabytes in size.  The only way to clear it is to exit Cygwin and manually
> delete the file.  How can I prevent Cygwin/Xfree86 from writing the to log
> file?  6 gigabytes is insanely large for a log file.

I found that if there are X applications drawing to the screen when I lock my windows screen that my log would fill up.  Usually the busy X app was just the X screen saver, so I disabled that (don't need two screen savers running!).

Cary
Cary.Jamison@PowerQuest.com



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