Subject: Re: KDE's qualms with /tmp/.ICE-unix
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/24/2006 09:23:38
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:21:56AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:03:52PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> > The only way around this I've found is to mkdir -p 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
> > as root, e.g. in rc.local. One could add some logic to /etc/rc.d/kdm
> > to check for this.
>
> You probably want mkdir -m (not -p), I have that in /etc/rc.local as well.
> I wouldn't vote for adding it to kdm's rc.d script though, users can start
> KDE from xdm (I'm seeing the problem in that case too) or other X login
> managers.
Or if Gnome and maybe other DE's have the same problem, we could just add
it to /etc/rc.d/cleartmp. That would only solve the problem for NetBSD
though.
Geert