---
name: "lnusertemp"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kdelibs4c2a"
version: "4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lnusertemp"
---

# lnusertemp(1)

tool to create KDE resources and symlinks to them

## NAME

lnusertemp — tool to create KDE resources and symlinks to them

## SYNOPSIS

**lnusertemp** \[*tmp\|socket\|cache\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **lnusertemp** command.

**lnusertemp** is used to create KDE  resources in temporary directories and symlinks to them in  KDEHOME. The resource that needs to be created is  given as an argument and can be anyone of:

- •

  *tmp*: for the directory used  for storing temporary files. This directory should be preferably  on a local filesystem (available in KDE 2.x)

- •

  *socket*: for the directory  that holds temporary sockets. This directory needs to be on the  local filesystem (available in KDE 2.x)

- •

  *cache*: for the directory that  stores cached information such as the HTTP cache and favicons  (available since KDE 3.0)

**lnusertemp** will create the first two  resources in directories under **/tmp** (or  KDETMP if defined in the environment) and will use  **/var/tmp** (or KDEVARTMP if  defined in the environment) for the *cache*     resource (in order to survive system reboots). The temporary  directories created for resources are usually of the form  **RESOURCE-USERNAME**. The name might vary if  those filenames already exist and do not belong to the user for  which **lnusertemp** is run, a temporary (unique)  name will be used if possible to prevent temporary symlink  attacks.

**lnusertemp** is usually called by the  **startkde** script.

## EXIT VALUES

**lnusertemp** will return 0 if it can  create the resource and symlink to it, or if the resource already  exists and is properly symlinked it will return 1 if it cannot  create the link or if the symlink is pointing to an incorrect  location.

## SEE ALSO

You can find more information on the KDE's usage of  temporary files in the Chapter *Temporary*  *and Other Files KDE Uses (link to URL http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/temp-files.html)*  of the *The KDE*  *Administrators Guide (link to URL http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/)* .

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino  \<jfs@debian.org\> for the **Debian** system (but may be used by  others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or  modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public  License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General  Public License can be found in  /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.