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Where to put client extension state files?

list Steve Coile
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:45:39 -0400
Message-Id: <CAHr=BSQD9XPih1R+SPZUbwh+S=user-b15d93d942a1@xymon.invalid>

I've written a client extension script that wants to maintain state between
runs, essentially to know where it left off after the last run.  Where is
the "proper" place to keep such state files?  On our install,
~xymon/client/tmp is a symlink to /tmp, which seems like a bad choice.

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