acroread and links in /tmp to cups PPD's

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/14/2010 04:06 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 04/14/2010 09:49 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 04/14/2010 03:39 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> Each time I'm starting acroread and exiting, I find new links in /tmp
>>> such as
>>>
>>> 4bc54f0710c36 ->  /etc/cups/ppd/xxxxx.ppd
>>> 4bc562d356e64 ->  /etc/cups/ppd/yyyyy.ppd
>>>
>>> where xxxxx and yyyyy are my two printers. The hex pattern behind
>>> "4bc5..." changes each time acroread runs.
>>>
>>> Anybody has a solution how to get rid of this acroread behaviour?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Joachim Backes<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
>>>
>>> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
>> Don't execute acroread directly.  Call it from a script and have the
>> script delete the files before it exits?
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> surely I can enwrap acroread into a script, but this only cures the
> symptoms and not the cause of this misbehaviour.
Well, since you're getting acroread from Adobe and it isn't OSS then I
doubt much can be done other than curing the symptom.  :-(

Of course you need to file a "bugzilla" with Adobe, right?

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