Recently we have started having a problem with temporary files created by afterstep and then not deleted.
What happens is that a user starts afterstep and it creates a /tmp/steprcXXXX file, containing their current setup. The permissions are set according to the user's umask. Sometimes, when the user leaves afterstep this temporary file is not removed, so when the next afterstep user comes along it will try to use the temporary file in preference to their own setup. Worse, if the first user's umask was such that the next user does not have read permission, afterstep will fail to start. For other users, this does not happen. And once upon a time it didn't happen for anybody. Does anybody have any idea what causes the steprcXXXX not to be deleted for some users? I suspect something in the personal setup files (this is a student lab, and once somebody gets a nice looking setup it tends to be copied around), but since I am not an afterstep user I haven't been able to spot anything untoward in the .steprc files concerned. The afterstep man page and FAQ do not mention the use of this temporary file at all. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
