Freeze Break Request

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Sep 24 20:52:14 UTC 2014


On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:37:16 -0600
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> In this case, I decided to look at where the script places files
> normally (if I am logged in via sudo -i and run the script manually
> these files are supposed to land in /root/ as $HOME is set there.) I
> figured Principle of Least Surprise should keep it there.
> 
> I could set UMASK or something but during a code freeze I would like
> to keep changes to least amount as I am not sure if UMASK is going to
> be honoured all the way through the program or if setting UMASK would
> break items. After the freeze these would be useful items to
> implement.
> 
> I hope that helps explain the reasoning which should have been a
> comment somewhere.

It would be nice to have a way to disable these, but perhaps until
then, we could put them in /root/retries/ or something and purge that
directory from time to time?

kevin
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