Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> > On a system with more than one user who uses GNOME you will actually
> > reduce the number of directories in /tmp if $TMPDIR is /tmp/$LOGNAME
> > rather than increase them.
>
> Not so; I use GNOME and it doesn't leave anything in /tmp. There's
> the normal .X11-{pipe,unix} stuff, but other than that /tmp is pretty much
> empty.
>
> I currently use systems with a modest number (100 or so) of users who
> don't use desktops; at a previous employer this proposal would have led
> to several thousand additional (empty) directories in /tmp.
I assume they only use shell commands and nothing with a GUI, right ?
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