ohhh... good idea! thanks.<br>I would still want to empty out the Desktop directory every reboot. I'm wondering if the <b>rm</b> command would delete everything but the immutable file or just stop and error out. I'll have to test.<br>
<br>-MQ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca">gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2009-06-30 09:22, Montana Quiring wrote:<br>
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I'm updating my public machine image with Ubuntu 8.04<br>
I would like for the Desktop directory in the users home directory to be non-deletable but still allow the user to download files to that folder (the files in the Desktop folder get deleted on a reboot).<br>
Right now my work around is a script in the runtime directory that deletes all of the files in the Desktop directory and then recreates and chowns it (in case it's been deleted).<br>
Assigning the directory the immutable bit stops it from being deleted but also doesn't allow the user to write in that folder. :(<br>
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I tried all the google results I could find, but couldn't find a working solution.<br>
Any suggestions?<br>
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How about putting an immutable file or subdirectory inside the Desktop directory? Since the Desktop directory can never be emptied, it would then become non-deletable itself, but could still be writable.<br><font color="#888888">
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