~/tmp/virtual-charlie.3HNF1Z

I am also getting files like this in ~/tmp:

Any idea what I can do to have these generated in /tmp instead of ~/tmp?

Also when they are moved to /tmp will they be deleted as necessary when
old?

Here is what I get:

[charlie@localhost ~]$ env | grep -i $USER/tmp
TMPDIR=/home/charlie/tmp
SCREENDIR=/home/charlie/tmp
TMP=/home/charlie/tmp

Maybe my .bash_logout is not doing it's job? My .bash_logout only has 1
line:

# ~/.bash_logout

clear

Any ideas?

Unless I fat fingered something somewhere I don't remember setting these. I
don't normally mess with the environment variables. It should be a standard
install. Should these point to /tmp instead of ~/tmp?

I looked at .bash_profile and tmp isn't mentioned there. What other files
should I look in?

I autologin to kde on startup. I found an option to clean /tmp on boot in
the Control Center (boot->setup->advanced)

however getting these
files/directories to appear in /tmp instead of ~/tmp seem difficult.

I guess there is no setting in the Control Center to do this?

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:52:19 -0500, Charlie wrote:

~/tmp/virtual-charlie.3HNF1Z

I am also getting files like this in ~/tmp:

Sounds like you may have been playing with some environment
variables. Check by doing a
env | grep -i $USER/tmp

Any idea what I can do to have these generated in /tmp instead of ~/tmp?

Maybe, maybe not.

Also when they are moved to /tmp will they be deleted as necessary when
old?

No idea about anything which cleans out based on age of file.

Only variables I know of controlling where temp files are created are
the ones I set in my global environment. I like placing the files in
~/tmp so that .bash_logout can clean them out upon logout.

export TMP=$HOME/tmp
export TMPDIR=$TMP
export TEMP=$TMP

export GCONF_TMPDIR=$TMPDIR
export KDETMP=$TMP
export KDEVARTMP=$TMPDIR

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:55:32 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Here is what I get:

[charlie@localhost ~]$ env | grep -i $USER/tmp
TMPDIR=/home/charlie/tmp
SCREENDIR=/home/charlie/tmp
TMP=/home/charlie/tmp

Well there you are, TMPDIR and TMP point to your ~/tmp
I have no knowledge about which app(s) uses SCREENDIR


Maybe my .bash_logout is not doing it's job? My .bash_logout only has 1
line:

# ~/.bash_logout

clear

Looks normal.

Any ideas?

About what? You want .bash_logout to clean $HOME/tmp, add

/bin/rm -fr $HOME/tmp/*

As for TMPDIR, SCREENDIR, TMP, need to find where you set them or you
can try unset to clear the environment variables.

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:27:43 -0500, Charlie wrote:

Unless I fat fingered something somewhere I don't remember setting these.
I don't normally mess with the environment variables. It should be a
standard install. Should these point to /tmp instead of ~/tmp?

I just booted 2009.1 and those are automagically set for you.

Just a reminder, /tmp is not going to be cleaned out unless you have
made some kind of system adjustment.

I looked at .bash_profile and tmp isn't mentioned there. What other files
should I look in?

Depends on how you login, Gui login or startx, type of desktop manager,...

Typical Non-gui login order of execution is
/etc/profile which sources /etc/profile.d/*.sh scripts
~/.bash_profile which sources ~/.bashrc
~/.bashrc sources /etc/bashrc

Normal startx on Mandriva kdm for kde.

sysclientrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc


xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs
exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*
sets language, merges in X resources from
sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
userresources2=$HOME/.Xdefaults
set /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm
DESKTOP=KDE4
for i in /etc/X11/xinit.d/*


Then of course there is

/etc/xdg/autostart, /usr/share/autostart,
/etc/X11/xinit.d, /etc/X11/Xsession, /etc/X11/Xsession.d

I believe that in Mandriva - at least, it used to be like that in the
older Mandrake releases