lynx temporary files

lynx temporary files

[Janina Sajka]

I have a problem with lynx. It's writing temporary files in my $HOME (as
opposed to something more appropriate like /tmp), but I can't find why.
I'd like to fix this--but can't find what to tweak. Does anyone know?

Here's what I get in my $HOME:

L20052-1103TMP.html
L9387-1161TMP.html.gz
L9387-1181TMP.html
L9387-1197TMP.html
L9387-298TMP.html.gz
L9387-368TMP.html
L9387-420TMP.html
L9387-954TMP.html.gz



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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@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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

Re: lynx temporary files

[Adam Myrow]

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.

Re: lynx temporary files

[Janina Sajka]

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@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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

Re: 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@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

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

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Re: 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@rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> 
> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> 
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> 
> If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
> 
> 
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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@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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

Re: lynx temporary files

[Richard Villa]

The only thing I can suggest, is to reinstall Lynx.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: lynx temporary files


>I have a problem with lynx. It's writing temporary files in my $HOME (as
> opposed to something more appropriate like /tmp), but I can't find why.
> I'd like to fix this--but can't find what to tweak. Does anyone know?
>
> Here's what I get in my $HOME:
>
> L20052-1103TMP.html
> L9387-1161TMP.html.gz
> L9387-1181TMP.html
> L9387-1197TMP.html
> L9387-298TMP.html.gz
> L9387-368TMP.html
> L9387-420TMP.html
> L9387-954TMP.html.gz
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
>
> If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
>
>
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