[X2Go-User] x2go server on debian: readonly partition

[richard lucassen]

On Mon, 2 May 2022 08:44:34 +0530
Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal at gmail.com> wrote:

> > To mitigate the issue, I would suggest using tmpfs for /tmp - RAM
> > does not wear out.
> 
> Could one specify where x2go keeps its tmp files? In that case, a
> separate tmpfs mount for it would solve the problem. Unless keeping
> all of /tmp on a tmpfs is recommended.

As said before, x2gocleansessions writes 4 files to /tmp each 2 seconds.
What I did is add a TMPDIR variable to the shell init script (I run
sysV):

/etc/init.d/x2goserver

mkdir -p -m 700 /tmp/x2go
export TMPDIR=/tmp/x2go

The reason I use a subdir on /tmp is that if you write in /tmp the /tmp
dir itself is modified (run 'stat /tmp/') and now everything takes
place on a ramdisk.

And /tmp/ runs on tmpfs in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

Maybe you may want to create a wrapper script in case you do not run
sysV.

R.

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