Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> On 00:38 Thu 14 Aug     , Sven Dowideit wrote:
> SD> No, I was told by Nico or Joey that web apps should not be filling up
> SD> the /var filesystem with session files.
> 
> SD> this is apparently also _not_ a solution.
> 
> SD> /tmp was determined in October 2007 as the best place
> 
> Ok, Yoy can do it (in your postinst):
> 
> twiki_session_dir=`mktemp -d /tmp/twiki.XXXXXXXXXX`
> chown www-data:www-data $twiki_session_dir # or chown $TWIKI_OWNER:www-data
> chmod 0750 $twiki_session_dir # or chmod 1770 if $TWIKI_OWNER != www-data
> perl -pi -e "s/(TempfileDir).*/$1} = '$twiki_session_dir';" \
>     /etc/twiki/LocalSite.cfg
> 
> attributes must be 0750 or 0770 or 0700 if owner==www-data
> or 1770 if owner != www-data ($TWIKI_OWNER)
> 
and then on upgrade, create another one because the user selected to
overwrite the cfg, and so on - sounds like its less of a solution than
to use a predictable dir, with a more appropriate attempt to make sure
its safe.

it worries me that you appear to be contradicting the permissions I was
required to set up for #444982 - I'm not quite sure who's advice should
get priority - Joey's or yours.

Perhaps I should set up a google fight.

Sven



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