From b1e8e5ac6467e8b0b8865b3a3387d2ea614b0672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 13:21:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xinit: rotate logfile when X starts

We don't need to keep logs for that long. The last run is more than
sufficient.
---
 xinitrc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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)
 
-- 
2.48.1