[Xastir-Dev] Re: [Xastir] Moved "tmp" files out of /var/tmp (CVS)

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Mills <Curt> writes:

[... public_html and ~/.xastir/tmp ...]

Jack> This should be done outside of xastir, perhaps with a script
Jack> that is contributed by a user.  This kind of script is
Jack> definitely valuable, but it shouldn't be part of xastir itself.
Jack> If we had a contrib directory, I'd say to stick it there.

Curt> I'm investigating a nice way to do it.  It looks like Apache
Curt> allows you to set up the public_html access, and then to allow
Curt> symlinks if the owner matches.  That looks like the best way to
Curt> do it, but I don't have it working yet.  Set that up, then
Curt> create a symlink:

Curt> ~/public_html/snapshot.png ->
Curt> ~/.xastir/tmp/xastir_<user>_snapshot.png

Great.  Personally, we don't use ~/public_html at twilley.org -- we
use /web/home/<username> -- so I like solutions that can work in
either place.  Any solution which doesn't touch the xastir source is a
good solution to me.

Oh, now is probably a good time to mention this: wouldn't  
~/.xastir/tmp/xastir_<user>_snapshot.png look better as
~/.xastir/tmp/xastir_snapshot.png ?  The code would be a heck of a lot
cleaner as a result, and there's no win to having two references to
the username.

Curt> The map downloads, track downloads, etc also use the .xastir/tmp
Curt> directory.

Excellent.

Jack.
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