On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28AM +0300, Serge wrote: > > Every file that exists in /tmp on the system from which I'm writing this > > exists there not because the application is saving memory but because the > > application needs to share that file with other applications. That > > includes a bunch of Kerberos ticket caches, several X server IPC > > rendezvous points, gnupg-agent and ssh-agent data, and a bunch of UNIX > > domain sockets for ORBit.
> I agree, not everybody read FHS, some software may have bugs. > According to FHS these should go to /var/run (or /run, if you like). > I mean, if you want to fix this, you should move those files to /run, > you should not turn /tmp into /run because of them. Absolutely not. /run is a root-only directory, suitable only for system-wide data/sockets. It absolutely must not be used for non-root data. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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