Hi Monks,

I'm trying to use (Merlyn's Basic Cookie Management) script, and it's working, but I have a some questions about it:

1. Creates files under: /tmp/File::Cache, but I'm on a shared webhost, and I'd rather have them under my own local tmp dir, in /home/username/tmp/File::Cache.  How can I change the code to use that path?  I see CGI has a -path switch, but I tried inserting this line:
  -path => '/home/username/tmp',
after line 14 of Merlyn's code, but cache files are still being created in /tmp/File::Cache, and I would have thought that File::Cache controls where they are placed, but I can't see how to change that path in File::Cache.

2. I notice that if the directory structure under /tmp/File::Cache exists, but there are no cache files created in it yet, I get this error when I run the code:
  "Insecure dependency in chdir while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Find.pm line 751."
How should I get around this error?  I see that removing the "-T" switch from the shebang line avoids it, and changing from File::Cache to Cache::FileCache seems to also, but I'm wondering if there's a better way.

Thanks.

In reply to Merlyn's Basic Cookie Management (1) by tel2

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