On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:51:11PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I don't think my temporary files should be deleted automagically, > since I do store files in ~/tmp myself, which I'd like to remove > myself as well. Having some tmp reaper do it for me is the wrong > thing. Others may have different opinions, of course. i think the only tmp directory that should be autocleaned is /tmp as it is now. having the default TMPDIR at or under /tmp is useful for both users and admins. users don't have to manually clean out random cruft that accumulates, and admins don't have to nag users to clean it up. $HOME should never ever be touched with autocleaners, i have a $HOME/tmp but i do NOT use it the way i use /tmp. (TMPDIR is not set there) > You need to chmod as well. I don't think this small program deserves > a .deb all by itself, so if it could go into wherever applicable > (base-files?) and /etc/profile (and other initialization scripts could > be modified to set $TMP and $TMPDIR to /tmp/user/`id -u`. > Additionally, your program seems to be responsible for creating /tmp/user, i think /tmp/user should be created at boot after /tmp is wiped, this way it can be created 1775 root.tmp and the helper only need be setgid tmp instead of setuid root. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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