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in reply to CGI open of tmpfile

If you have your temp dir on an unordinary place, just do this: 
BEGIN { $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/mytmp' }
use CGI;

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Or edit your CGI.pm in the right place: 
# HARD-CODED LOCATION FOR FILE UPLOAD TEMPORARY FILES.
# UNCOMMENT THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
# $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/usr/tmp';

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Re: Re: CGI open of tmpfile
by rdfield (Priest) on Oct 22, 2002 at 13:15 UTC
    I don't think that this is particularly good advice. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the CGI docs clearly state that temp dirs are found in the following order:
    • ~user/tmp
    • $ENV{TMPDIR}
    • the usual suspects (/usr/tmp, /var/tmp, C:\temp, /tmp, /temp, ::Temporary Items, and \WWW_ROOT)
    I don't see any mention of it looking at the value of $TempFile::TMPDIRECTORY (whatever that might be) and I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone start hacking CGI.pm.

    rdfield

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      You are right. But what if he or his sysadmin created another tmp directory, and disabled all the places, where CGI.pm looks after? I don't think that's impossible. What can he do then instead of hacking?

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        $ENV{TMPDIR} = '/some/writable/directory';?

        rdfield

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