x11 /tmp preparation rc.d script

[Jose M Rodriguez]

Eric Anholt escribió:

>On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
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>>Jose M Rodriguez escribió:
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>>>Eric Anholt escribió:
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>>>>Attached are my proposed patches to deal with the X11 ICE issue.  To
>>>>review, it's required because having .ICE not owned by root is a
>>>>security issue, one that's been papered over with a printed warning and
>>>>sleep(5) in libICE for years, and has recently been changed into an
>>>>actual error by the X.Org folks.
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>>As a latter think about this, consider take also periodic related fixes 
>>(We clear this directories by default) and try to get a OS_VERSION bump 
>>closest to this.
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>I'm sorry, I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about here.  Are you
>saying that /etc/periodic contains something that will wipe out X's
>files in /tmp?  That would be rather broken.
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take a look into /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps and 
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf.

This is not me, I read this recently on lists/PRs, but the stock 
definition of daily_clean_tmps_ignore doesn't protect X11 directories, 
only X11 locks files.

I don't think that this may be a real thread (I Have some Xterminal 
servers and I can't see /tmp/.ICE-unix vanished).

It only may become a thread if files under /tmp/.ICE-unix are not 
accesed often, but I think that adding  .X11-unix, .ICE-unix and 
.font-unix to daily_clean_tmps_ignore in the stock 
/etc/defaults/periodic may not hurt.

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  josemi