lynx temporary files

[Laura Eaves]

Hi -- I haven't used lynx for a long time, but used to do some development 
on it back a few years ago, and I seem to remember that some commented 
internal debugging messages go to temp files in the current directory, not 
in /tmp
Again, as someone else suggested, is this a standard release of lynx? did 
you use an option that is seldom used that someone may have forgotten to 
turn off debugging for? Have you looked at the contents of the files?
Good luck.
--le

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From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: lynx temporary files


Hi, Adam:

Well, /tmp is 1776, which is the Fedora default, at least. Also, the
lynx I'm using is the default provided by Fedora, 2.8.5dev.16, which I
believe is unchanged from Fedora 2. I don't rightly remember when I
started seeing this, but I was surprised, because I, too, am accustomed
only to see these files in /tmp.

Needless to say, though, that I have mangled the configuration in order
to make lynx more blind friendly. I have a .lynxrc and I have also made
system-wide changes using the new /etc/lynx-site.cfg mechanism. Looking
through both of these, I find nothing about where to write these files.
The closest I see is to put cache files into RAM, which I have turned
on. And, of course, these are cache, so what does that mean?


Adam Myrow writes:
> Is this a version of Lynx compiled from source or pre-installed?  Is it a
> stable, or developer version?  Are the permissions on /tmp 1777?  Lastly,
> is Lynx deleting these files on exit?  I've never had Lynx put anything in
> any place other than /tmp, and it always cleans up after itself, so I'm
> puzzled by this.
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