Thanks pl and rvp,
I'll try the following homedir/.profile environment variables for passing data. ``` XDG_CACHE_HOME="/tmp/.$(id -nu)_cache"; export XDG_CACHE_HOME test -d "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" || install -d -m 700 "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/.$(id -nu)_runtime"; export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR test -d "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" || install -d -m 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ``` => https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/#variables . -- vl