How do you turn off XWin.log logging?

Vince vince@unsane.co.uk
Thu Sep 5 08:57:00 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.
>
 havent tried as yet but
ln -s /dev/null /path/to/XWin.log
 should work.

Vince






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