Re: Annoying tmp files on shared host

Chris Martin wrote:
> I host a site on a shared server that, recently, is constantly sending 
> me emails about running out of space. This account is a small (100MB) 
> account, and when I go into cPanel and look at the disk usage, 
> /tmp/urchin is usually the culprit (most of the time > 75MB).
> I cleared them out Wed, and by yesterday it was full again.
> 
> I was going to complain to my host about it, but then I realized I 
> wasn't sure how those were supposed to be cleared out.
> I wasn't sure if they were supposed to auto-magically evaporate, or if I 
> should setup a cron job or something. I've never run into this before so 
> I was hoping one of you might be able to shine some light on it.
> 

Well, you shouldn't really have a problem rm'ing files in tmp.  That's 
what tmp's for.  The only problem that you might have is if you remove 
the temp files of a currently running process.  Do you know what process 
is putting temp files in /tmp/urchin?  You could set a cron job to 
delete that dir, but the better solution would be to find out why they 
are there in the first place.

-John