Where do you store data files?

Cliff Wells logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 21 01:14:01 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 20:55, Laura Creighton wrote:
> Cliff Wells:
> > Can't speak for the Win32 crowd, but on Linux the best places would be
> > either /tmp (although this can open security risks) or somewhere in the
> > user's home directory.  A lot of apps will use a hidden "dot" file or
> > directory, e.g. ~/.appname/cache
> 
> Warning: If your users have to pay for disk storage, and you hide huge
> log files in hidden .files or .directories, when the bill comes due
> they may be quite unhappy.

All my users are unhappy.  If they were happy they wouldn't need me.


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Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net>






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