-EEXIST

Posted Jun 28, 2024 22:25 UTC (Fri) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)
In reply to: -EEXIST by daroc
Parent article: Programming in Unison

chmod u-w ~

solves this problem permanently, both for dotfiles that ought to be written under ~/.config, and other directories like "Downloads" and "Documents" that certain programs insist on trying to create.

-EEXIST

Posted Jul 1, 2024 12:08 UTC (Mon) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

Yes, I did try running with an immutable home directory for a while. It worked alright, but some software that I wanted to use just completely refused to cope with being unable to create files there. Eventually I decided it was easier to let it create files and then clean up afterwards.