On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 20:19, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > I don't know of any such cronjob in debian. Would you expect this to be > something system-wide, or run on a per-user basis?
This used to be a system wide policy on old Unix installations. This is the reasons why you create tempfiles with a ".#" prefix. I do not use it because stale temp files may indicate a software problem. > would seem to be, since it has the hostname in it), the usual place > these would go on a modern distro is $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (typically > /run/user/1000 for a user with numeric id 1000). These directories are GnuPG uses dot locking so that copy/link/rename is secured. A separate local lock directory can't be used due to remotely mounted and shared directories. > For home directories accessed on multiple machines simultaneously > (e.g. NFS-mounted homedirs), are the locks required to work across > machines? Yes. These are file locks and not process lock files. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
