From: Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 12:21:30 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: xinit: rotate logfile when X starts
X-Git-Url: https://git.rmz.io/dotfiles.git/commitdiff_plain/b1e8e5ac6467e8b0b8865b3a3387d2ea614b0672?ds=sidebyside

xinit: rotate logfile when X starts

We don't need to keep logs for that long. The last run is more than
sufficient.
---

diff --git a/xinitrc b/xinitrc
index b7597ec..9f4e466 100644
--- a/xinitrc
+++ b/xinitrc
@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ userprofile_d=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xinit/xprofile.d
 sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
 sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
 
+# backup logfile
+if [ -f "$logfile" ]; then
+    mv -f "$logfile" ${logfile}.old
+fi
 # redirect all further output
-exec 2>&1 >>"$logfile"
+exec 2>&1 >"$logfile"
 
 printf "\n%s  Reading '~/.xinitrc'\n" $(date --iso-8601=minutes)