Re: Need your advice on php5 session files - [Fwd: Bug#479905: phpgroupware-0.9.16-core-base: /var/lib/phpgroupware/sessions grows as files are never purged]
"Chris Weiss" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.phpgroupware.devel |
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 22:02 +0200, chris a écrit : >> Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 07:11 -0500, Chris Weiss a écrit : >> >> > >> > it's always been my impression that php's garbage collection, not a >> > cron job, handles removing old session files. maybe what we have a >> > bug in php itself... >> > >> Garbage collection is disabled in debian, this allows strict permissions >> on /var/lib/php5. >> drwx-wx-wt 2 root root 4096 avr 18 10:09 . >> >> That if I understand well, let any user create a file and only the one >> that created the file remove it. >> So it is not possible to parse the directory. Thats why the cron job is >> there. >> My guess is that we will need to enable the gc >> in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpgroupware >> >> php_value session.gc_probability 1 >> > > Hmmm... Chris, can you provide some ref docs on that garbage > collecting ? > > I'm not sure you came to the same conclusion, reading your other post at > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-php-maint/2008-May/004010.html :-/ > > Can you summarize your advice (and CC: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479905) ? > this is becoming less clear. the wwwroot user does all access to the files, no matter what phpgw user is logged in. I don't see how file permissions affect this. What I know about the subject is simply from memory of talking to php developers (the ones that write the php engine) in ##php on freenode, though that was a while ago, about when php5 was released.