Re: [Gnumed-devel] the persistence and relevance of /home/user/.gnumed/tmp/ files to gnumed medication printing

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 08:39:32PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> In the course of trying to provide feedback on failed printing, I had noticed 
> within my Ubuntu
> 
>       /tmp/
> 
> numerous directories of the form
> 
>       /home/jbusser/.gnumed/tmp/gm-L-Template-YRORh6

Those are sandbox directores for running LaTeX in.

> and on account of their distraction to me, I deleted them all

GNUmed deletes them after generating the PDF -- unless there
was an error during PDF generation and/or the PDF cannot be
found afterwards.

> However I now seem no longer to be generating the instance files...

You are but because PDF generation now works just fine they
get deleted appropriately.

> would my having already quit the GNUmed client, and
> then pruned the contents of
> 
>       /home/jbusser/.gnumed/tmp/

No. The GNUmed client does not prune the temporary directory.

> and then rebooted my Ubuntu system and logged back in,
> shouldn't be the basis for ongoing trouble, I wouldn't think (?)

No.

Karsten
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