[Kde-kiosk] KDE Temp Files in /tmp

[Chris Fanning]

> solution. aRts is fragile though, and I don't envy the poor sod who dives
> in it to try to fix it...
jeje

On 12/1/05, Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org> wrote:
> If you don't need sound you can consider disabling aRts -- the MCOP stuff
> is not part of KDE proper and only of the aRts sound server. KDE 4 will no
> longer use aRts anyway, but in the mean time there ought to be another
> solution. aRts is fragile though, and I don't envy the poor sod who dives
> in it to try to fix it...
>
> --
> Martijn
>
> Murray Trainer said:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I found an old article that said the mcop-userid directories need to
> > machine specific so for our situation with NFS home directories things
> > wouldn't work right if we could move them to user temp directories.  I
> > think the location is hard-coded to /tmp by the looks of it.  We also
> > are still using Evolution 1.4 but it looks like Evolution 2.x does the
> > right thing.  I think newer versions of Acrobat reader also behave a bit
> > better in where they keep their temp files.
> >
> > Murray
> >
> >> Hi Murray,
> >>
> >> Did you have any luck with that?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Chris.
> >>
> >> On 11/9/05, Murray Trainer <mtrainer at central-data.net> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to further tighten the security in our KDE Kiosk mode
> >> > environment.  One issue of concern was user files/dirs lying around in
> >> > /tmp that other users can see.  I know most of them are secured by
> >> their
> >> > ownership and permissions but I don't even want users to know other
> >> > users login ID's.  We are using NFS mounted home directories.  I have
> >> > set the following variables to make Gnome and KDE files reside in
> >> user's
> >> > local tmp directories:
> >> >
> >> > # Set KDE and Gnome temp vars to user tmp dir
> >> > export TMPDIR=~/tmp
> >> > export KDETMP=~/tmp
> >> > export KDEVARTMP=~/tmp
> >> >
> >> > The above works fine.  I am still getting mcop-userid directories in
> >> > /tmp.  Is there a variable that I can set to make this directory get
> >> > stored under the user's home directory?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > Murray
> >> >
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