Hi, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > > The interesting part about this is that one cannot change the work > > directory in the rc file either, because the temporary file for sourcing > > the configuration is stored in ... surprise ... the work directory. > > That's does not seem to be true, based on how I read the code, the > preprocessing is done in the work directory, but it's done in every tiger > run. If you modify the RC file, then the preprocessed rc file will also be > modified. > Exactly -- the preprocessing is done in the work directory. But if the work directory doesn't exist in the first place ...
> > So there's no way to change the work directory without modifying the
> > package (or one of its read-only files). I'd consider that to be a bug.
>
> Which read-only file? You can use the '-w' switch to change the working
> directory for tiger in any run. It defaults to 'run/' (relative path) so that
> people running the package (in other OSes) do not need to have it installed.
>
You can't pass -w to /usr/sbin/tigercron.
> > Fix: use $(tempfile) for the above file name.
>
> That fix is not useful. Tempfile is not available in all the different
> systems that Tiger can run on.
>
mktemp, then? I'm not that familiar with different flavors of
which-utility-is-available-where.
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