I'm not sure what sysadmins you are talking about, but /tmp is typically a world-writable directory.
Also, there is no such "strict" Unix naming convention. The directory /tmp is always /tmp, so matter how "lenient" you want to be. There is simply a difference between relative paths and absolute paths. Chris Bruce Karstedt wrote: >I was referring to strict Unix directory naming conventions. /tmp is the >equivalent of root/tmp and no sysadmin wants you writing to his /tmp >directory. In fact you should not be allowed to write to /tmp. While I have >not checked this, I have the feeling that PHP takes care of this for you. If >you are creating a subdirectory, say for data, on your web site the Unix >path may be something like /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory. > >Since your default directory would be /websites/yoursitename/htdocs to get >to /websites/yoursitename/htdocs/subdirectory you should use ./subdirectory >which means "start in my default directory and go down one level to >subdirectory. > >I'm sorry if this sounds critical, but I have found that many of the problem >posted to this list are OS based, and I urge the members to learn both the >operating system that they do their development on and the box where your >site is hosted. The use of OS standard directories such as /tmp or /etc are >bad form in Unix and make error log analysis difficult at best > >Bruce Karstedt >President >Technology Consulting Associates, Ltd. >Tel: 847-735-9488 >Fax: 847-735-9474 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Julie Meloni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:13 PM >To: Bruce Karstedt >Cc: 'php'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re[2]: [PHP] session problems.... > > >BK> You should not be writing to /tmp that is a system directory. php.ini is >a >BK> file. If you need a "temporary" directory, use ./tmp that will be >directory >BK> in your web root directory. > > >With all due respect, I think there's a reason that /tmp is the default >session.save_path value in php.ini. /tmp is temp. It's where >temporary things go. > >Saying "you shouldn't use that" is pretty much saying "Hey PHP >Development Group, you've done this wrong for 2 years". If you don't >want to write your session files to /tmp, then don't. But please >don't say that it's wrong to do so. That's not the answer to the >guy's particular problem. > > >- Julie > >--> Julie Meloni >--> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >--> www.thickbook.com > >Find "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours" at >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323494/thickbookcom-20 > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
