[X2Go-User] session.log file fills disk

[Norman Gaywood]

Hi David,

Yes, I see this quite a bit. I have a lot of students using x2goclient.
Every now and then someone seems to lose control of their application (I
don't know how) and it starts writing to the session log file in a loop.
Quite often the log information is something like a program writing a
prompt message (Like "Enter a number:") and this gets stuck in a loop.

In a terminal, do a tail on the session log file, something like:

tail -f .xsession.log

and you might see what's writing to the log file.

To fix it, you have to kill the program that's doing the logging, terminate
the session and then remove the session log.
You have to make sure the program doing the logging is gone and not holding
the session log open, otherwise the space is not reclaimed.



On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 06:17, David Schumm <david.schumm at seakr.com> wrote:

> We are seeing this on multiple machines where the session.log file is
> massive.  I’ve seen them as large as 82gb.  This of course causes the disk
> to fill
>
> When you attempt to open it it says it’s a binary file
>
> Server is Centos 7 running  x2go server 4.1.0.3-9
>
> Anyone seen this?
>
>
>
>
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