Re: [Erlyaws-list] Yaws ctl file outside /tmp

[ke.han <ke...@re...>]

great find...I would like to be able to relocate the control files as well.
I think a yaws command line switch would be preferred over an 
environment variable since the mnesia directory already has one.
ke han

Fredrik Thulin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On my new servers (operated by other people than me), there is a 
> cron-job or similar that regularly cleans out /tmp. The effect on Yaws 
> is that I can't talk to running servers, and other intermittent bad 
> things.
> 
> I think /var/tmp is left alone, so I need a way to specify where Yaws 
> should put it's run-time files.
> 
> The simplest (and also, IMO quite elegant) solution is to look for a 
> TMPDIR environment variable in yaws:tmp_dir/0, similar to what is done 
> for win32 os:type(). See the attached patch 'use-TMPDIR.patch1' - I 
> hope you like the idea.
> 
> Secondly, I noted a couple of places in yaws_ctl.erl where /tmp was 
> hard-coded. See the attached patch consistent-ctl_path.patch1.
> 
> And also, there is an
> 
> 	 io:format("AAAA A = ~p~n", [A]),
> 
> in src/yaws_config.erl which I believe was not meant to be committed.
> 
> Trevlig helg / Have a nice weekend
> 
> /Fredrik