[Forum] /Tmp Folder

[Guest]

Hi All


My host said I should seek advice on the below. Any help appreciated.

every session file the forum is generating in the /tmp folder is 1.3Mb or more in size so is filling the tmp partition extremely quickly

[Zachery]

As far as i know vBulletin shouldn't be making any session files anywher (we store our sessions in the database).

What are these files named and what is inside of them?

[Guest]

OK, thanks. I have asked my host for more details.

[Guest]

Here is their reply;

sessions are always created when someone logs into a site in virtually any php based site

they are stored in the servers root /var/tmp folder and have reanson session names in the format of sess_*

[Zachery]

We do not use PHP sessions as far as I know. We use cookies and database sessions as trackers.

[unp]

Ask your host to set a cron job to clear session files every 24 hours.

[Guest]

Thanks all, my host is looking into it.