From ded7002f599fd719e25cca3eccc3dfd8c273fe28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Niethammer <niethammer@hlrs.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:11:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] More secure way to prevent conflicts if multiple user execute
 script on the same system.

---
 check_modules.sh | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/check_modules.sh b/check_modules.sh
index d57b5ec..6708c9b 100755
--- a/check_modules.sh
+++ b/check_modules.sh
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ IRed='\e[0;91m'         # Intense Red
 
 # intermediate files, logfiles
 LOGDIR=${LOGDIR:=$PWD}
-TMP=${TMP:=/tmp}
+tmpdir=/tmp/check_modules-$USER
+mkdir -p $tmpdir
 logfile="$LOGDIR/check_modules.log"  # logfile with detailed information
-module_load_logfile="$TMP/.module_load.$$.log"  # output of 'module load commands 
-module_rm_logfile="$TMP/.module_rm.$$.log"  # output of 'module rm' commands
-module_clean_env_file="$TMP/.module_clean_env.$$"  # original environment
+module_load_logfile="$tmpdir/.module_load.log"  # output of 'module load commands 
+module_rm_logfile="$tmpdir/.module_rm.log"  # output of 'module rm' commands
+module_clean_env_file="$tmpdir/.module_clean_env"  # original environment
 
 # safe the original environment
 set > $module_clean_env_file
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ done
 
 # clean up file storing the initial environment 
 rm -f $module_clean_env_file
+rm -rf $tmpdir
 
 
 echo "----------------------------------------"