[haiku] Re: TEMP directory

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:24:17 +0200 CEST

> > or just /tmp ...
> 
> Now that will teach me not to be lazy and search for things in  
> Terminal, not just in Tracker. Dammit, I miss Midnight Commander!

It has been ported to BeOS, so you can likely update the port:
http://bebits.com/app/810
http://bebits.com/app/3464

There is also an mc-like native app:

http://bebits.com/app/966

> For what I'm working on, I need to see what is happening in there, so  
> I symlinked it to ~/config. Now I can open it in Tracker.

You can also see /tmp, just do open it from Terminal:
open /tmp

> > It might be worth logging a bug or enhancement for that. I've also 
> > had
> > thoughts of having a simple schedule server (a la cron, but not so
> > obscure) which could be set up to empty the Trash every month or
> > whatever.
> 
> I tried cleaning it up with a UserShutdownFinishScript, but it looks  
> like that script is one BeOS convention that didn't make it into 
> Haiku

This should be fixed someday.

François.

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