[4471] in Athena Software Suggestions
Re: lost file from tmp directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Aug 12 11:37:26 2006
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:37:08 -0400
To: Andrea Rivers <arivers@mit.edu>
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We have, actually, made two changes to the standard mail program
(Evolution) to make this less likely:
1. We store attachments in /var/tmp instead of /tmp. It takes a
few days for a file to be cleaned out of /var/tmp, so you should be
able to return to the same workstation and find the file, ideally.
2. We set attachment files read-only, so that with most programs
they are harder to edit.
What mail program were you using?
