On Sun, 5 May 2024 at 22:22, Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > In case anybody is aware of packages/programs needing an update to cope > > with these changes, or any other issue, please let me know and I will > > file bugs. > > in localslackirc@.service > > ReadWritePaths=/var/tmp > > It uses /var/tmp because it needs a directory with 1777 permissions that is > permanent, to keep some status. > > The user it ends up using is configured by a seting, and is intended to be a > non-system user (and could be different users for the various instances). > > I guess the solution would be to create such a directory when installing, in / > var/lib/localslackirc instead of using /var/tmp and have the purge script > remove it.
Services can use StateDirectory= and StateDirectoryMode= which should provide the same functionality, and is more appropriate for persistent state. /tmp/ and /var/tmp/ are meant to be scratch areas, rather than state storage.
