Re: Orbit's temp. directory

[David Johnston <djohnston teamlogisco com>]

On 11/12/00, 4:43:22 PM, Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> wrote regarding 
Re: Orbit's temp. directory:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, David Johnston wrote:
> > /tmp/orbit-USERNAME gets created for every user who starts Gnome.
> > I would prefer ... /home/USERNAME/tmp/orbit.  How?

> you can hack the ORBit code yourself...
> It would be a really bad idea. /home is very often on NFS, and UNIX
> sockets on an NFS-mounted path don't work on a number of operating
> systems, and the directory is per-[machine,user], not simply per-user.
> -- Elliot

Elliot,
thanks for the explanation.  I figured you did it that way for a reason.

Why aren't the orbit directories in /tmp removed when Orbit shuts down?  
Is the cookie intended to be persistent across Orbit sessions?

Regards,
David