On Sat 20 August 2011 00:02:15 Walter Dnes did opine thusly:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> 
> > Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm)
> > here that nothing else had.
> > 
> > One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than
> > wherever I happened to be at the time.
> 
>   Question... how many people have /tmp on a partition that's
> mounted "noexec"?  That could be a problem.

Add a variable at the top to define the bin directory to use. Then 
users can change it to whatever suits them.

/tmp is a good default, except when it's mounted noexec.
Same for ~

Almost every reasonable choice will have times when it's not good, so 
rather shift the responsibility over to the end user :-)


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