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Subject:    /tmp files necessary?!?!?
From:       Evan Edwards <evan () onepaper ! com>
Date:       2001-02-27 15:36:31
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On Monday 26 February 2001 06:01 pm, Joseph Lewis wrote:

> > Well, I couldn't get the panel to "log out", so I killed it and rebooted 
to
> a console25.  I wiped out the /tmp directory, and then rebooted, typed
> startx, and I had a screen saver ready to run.  You were right about temp
> files from each session being saved.

   During 1.9x beta days, I often had to logout, wipe the /tmp, and log in, 
and that fixed the majority of problems.  It still seems to be a necessary 
fix every once in awhile.

    Which begs the question: Why do those files persist anyway?  What benefit 
do they give?  Why not just unlink them every time your session ends anyway? 

    /tmp/ files are also notoriously dangerous in terms of security problems. 
 (Not that I'm saying that these *are* insecure, just that security fixes 
often have to do with temp files or files located in /tmp).

--
Evan
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