Private /tmp directories in Debian 9 Stretch with Apache

In Debian 9 Stretch Apache is configured to use systemd‘s PrivateTmp feature by default. This means that the Apache tmp directory actually lives in /tmp/systemd-private-BIGLONGSTRING--apache2.service-STRING.

So if you are running an SVN server that uses Apache for serving, anything written to /tmp in the hook scripts ends up in the private directory rather than the normal userspace one.

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Jamie Scott

IT Administrator at the Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow

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