[18173] in Athena Bugs
Re: zctl loses on long logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 21 11:38:57 2000
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To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:35:42 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:38:53 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Presumably this is because the windowgram file (/tmp/wg.something)
gets cleaned up by /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas. You might be able to
prevent it by reading the file occasionally (clean_tmp_areas won't
delete anything which has been read in the last day), but of course
that shouldn't be required.
I'm not sure how to fix this bug. Perhaps clean_tmp_areas shouldn't
delete any files owned by logged-in users, but that would probably
require either very gross and brittle shell code or rewriting it in C
or perl.
