NAME
lnusertemp — tool to create KDE resources and symlinks to them
SYNOPSIS
lnusertemp [tmp|socket|cache]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lnusertemp command.
lnusertemp is used to create KDE resources in temporary directories and
symlinks to them in KDEHOME. The resource that needs to be created is
given as an argument and can be anyone of:
· tmp: for the directory used for storing temporary files. This
directory should be preferably on a local filesystem (available
in KDE 2.x)
· socket: for the directory that holds temporary sockets. This
directory needs to be on the local filesystem (available in KDE
2.x)
· cache: for the directory that stores cached information such as
the HTTP cache and favicons (available since KDE 3.0)
lnusertemp will create the first two resources in directories under
/tmp (or KDETMP if defined in the environment) and will use /var/tmp
(or KDEVARTMP if defined in the environment) for the cache resource
(in order to survive system reboots). The temporary directories created
for resources are usually of the form RESOURCE-USERNAME. The name might
vary if those filenames already exist and do not belong to the user for
which lnusertemp is run, a temporary (unique) name will be used if
possible to prevent temporary symlink attacks.
lnusertemp is usually called by the startkde script.
EXIT VALUES
lnusertemp will return 0 if it can create the resource and symlink to
it, or if the resource already exists and is properly symlinked it will
return 1 if it cannot create the link or if the symlink is pointing to
an incorrect location.
SEE ALSO
You can find more information on the KDE’s usage of temporary files in
the Chapter Temporary and Other Files KDE Uses (link to URL
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/temp-files.html) of the The KDE
Administrators Guide (link to URL http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/) .
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
<jfs@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.