On 30/04/07, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> These users actually log into the machines in question, but never
> create _any_ temporary files?Personally, I have a hard time believing this. Almost any time I've logged in or out of GNOME I find many little files littering /tmp or /var/tmp from orbit, ice, sockets, etc. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
