On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 15:03 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Peter Jones wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 07:38 -0700, Bikehead wrote: > > > > > >>I probably don't since I'm trying to get suspend to memory. However, I > >>am using the instructions for acpi action scripts from this site: > >>http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~afedosov/thinkpad/acpi.shtml. It is writing to > >>/tmp/suspended in order to protect against a problem where the power > >>event was triggered after a resume from suspend to disk so that the > >>powerbutton.sh action could differentiate between a true shutdown and a > >>resume. > >> > >> > > > >It shouldn't really be using a predictably named file in /tmp for that. > > > > > > > How about /var/run? /var/run is fine, sure. Point being, the file needs to be in a directory only root can create files in. -- Peter