Filling / in novel ways

[Eliot Frost]

How well does this actually work? I'd be worried that if you denied the
creation of a cache for Flash, it would simply not be able to buffer video
or animation. Or does all of the caching take place in /tmp, and if so,
what's in .adobe and .macromedia ?

Eliot

On 27 August 2010 17:22, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:45:15AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote
>
> > Speaking of Flash, I have been systematically deleting all flash cookies
> > for a few months with this crontab:
> >
> > 0 * * * *       rm -r /home/$USER/.adobe; rm -r /home/$USER/.macromedia;
> >
> > I have had no problems with stability (until perhaps last night - I must
> > investigate) and if I delete a browser cookie, it stays deleted, rather
> > than the zombie cookie behaviour that is increasingly common.
>
>   While you're at it, beware of the ~/.adobe directory (Adobe bought
> Macromedia).  My rather-heavy-handed solution is to su to root, delete
> them and then...
>
> touch /home/waltdnes/.adobe
> touch /home/waltdnes/.macromedia
>
>  Let's see Schlockwave-Trash (running as user waltdnes) try to write or
> delete the .adobe or .macromedia files (owned by root).  And since you
> can't simultaneously have files and directories with identical names,
> the directories cannot be created.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/legacy/attachments/20100829/438d217b/attachment.html>