Permissions on /tmp

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Wed May 22 08:26:44 EDT 2013



> the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my
> pid file (as opposed to having to be either root or the user
> created for the program)

Create a subdirectory of /tmp.  Your PID file will be safe
in there but still get tidied up on reboot.



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