lynx temporary files

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks. The files are literally pages that I have up in various
terminals at the moment--so caches.

I think the only clue I have is that lynx is supposed to be caching in
RAM, not on disk, according to my /etc/lynx-site.cfg settings.

Laura Eaves writes:
> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.