[3227] in Athena Bugs
Re: /tmp/Xbin (actually deactivate in general)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel I. Applebaum)
Mon Sep 18 17:31:18 1989
From: Daniel I. Applebaum <danapple@FLOTSAM.MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: hkbirke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, quality@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Sep 89 10:34:57 D.
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 17:30:47 EDT
At locations other than MIT, /tmp is not per login session, but per
machine boot. For this reason, the X server places it's UNIX socket
in a subdirectory under /tmp When I wrote Galatea, I figured doing
things the same as X wouldn't be a bad idea.
Why not put the same cleanup script in /etc/athena/deactivate as in
clean_tmp_areas? This would still remove all the files that shouldn't
be there, but would leave UNIX domain sockets for servers that are
always around. I'm don't believe that simply putting the UNIX domain
socket in /usr/tmp is a solution, because there's no telling when
somebody will decide that removing everything in /usr/tmp is a good
idea on every deactivation.
Dan.
