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  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Javier</firstname>">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Fernandez-Sanguino</surname>">
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  <!ENTITY dhdate      "<date>25 January, 2005</date>">
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  <!ENTITY dhemail     "<email>jfs@debian.org</email>">
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    <address>
      &dhemail;
    </address>
    <author>
      &dhfirstname;
      &dhsurname;
    </author>
    <copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
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    &dhucpackage;

    &dhsection;
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  <refnamediv>
    <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>

    <refpurpose>tool to create KDE resources and symlinks to them</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command>

      <arg><option><replaceable>tmp|socket|cache</replaceable></option></arg>

    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>This manual page documents briefly the
      <command>&dhpackage;</command> command.</para>

    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> is used to create KDE
    resources in temporary directories and symlinks to them in
    <envar>KDEHOME</envar>. The resource that needs to be created is
    given as an argument and can be anyone of:</para>

    <itemizedlist>

    <listitem><para><emphasis>tmp</emphasis>: for the directory used
    for storing temporary files. This directory should be preferably
    on a local filesystem (available in KDE 2.x)</para> </listitem>

    <listitem><para><emphasis>socket</emphasis>: for the directory
    that holds temporary sockets. This directory needs to be on the
    local filesystem (available in KDE 2.x)</para> </listitem>

    <listitem><para><emphasis>cache</emphasis>: for the directory that
    stores cached information such as the HTTP cache and favicons
    (available since KDE 3.0)</para> </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

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

    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> is usually called by the
    <command>startkde</command> script.</para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>EXIT VALUES</title>

    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> 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.</para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>

    <para>You can find more information on the KDE's usage of
    temporary files in the Chapter <ulink
    url="http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/temp-files.html"><citetitle>Temporary
    and Other Files KDE Uses</citetitle></ulink> of the <ulink
    url="http://i18n.kde.org/doc/admin/"><citetitle>The KDE
    Administrators Guide</citetitle></ulink>.  </para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>

    <title>AUTHOR</title>

    <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername;
      &lt;&dhemail;&gt; 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.  </para>

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

  </refsect1>
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