[GRASS-user] cleaning unwanted files

[Glynn Clements]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> What about the GIS_ERROR_LOG?
> 
> Right now this file is in my /home directory and occupies 187MB! Can we
> safely remove it (since there are many not important messages there)?

Yes.

> Should we back it up?

That's up to you, but I wouldn't.

> Can the code that produces it modified on order to remove after some
> time old entries (like old clean_temp)?

GRASS only writes to that file if it already exists; nothing in GRASS
should ever create it.

If it doesn't exist, error message just go to stderr (i.e. the
terminal, unless it has been redirected).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>