Matlab and /var/tmp

[Russell Coker]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 04:56, chris albert <christopher.albert at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> I'm wondering if I missed something, or would it be a good idea to have
> 'fixfiles relable' flush /var/tmp in the same way it does /tmp.

It would probably be a good idea.  Although /var/tmp is used for more 
persistent data than /tmp and there would be more risk of something that is 
considered important getting lost.

I wonder what happens if a regular user creates the matlab directory 
under /var/tmp as mode 777...

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