[CentOS] systemd private tmp dirs

Wed Apr 15 21:07:16 UTC 2015
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:55:34PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is there a generic way that processes written to share files with
> (say) apache in /tmp can figure out that they are running on an OS
> with systemd and in that case, where the daemon in question thinks
> /tmp is?
> 
> For example, twiki has a backup/restore add-in where the backup part
> is normally done from cron with a command line script but the
> resulting archives that go in /tmp  are supposed to be seen in the web
> interface where you can choose and restore from them.  How should that
> have been written so the file lands where systemd has remapped /tmp
> for httpd if it happens to be running on a host with systemd?

Why does this directory have to be /tmp rather than a specific
directory belonging to twiki?


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