Re: Annoying tmp files on shared host

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 09:00 pm, Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 10:01, 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.
>
> Not heavily tested (I ran it twice), but attached is a Python script
> that uses lsof to get a list of open files in a directory, then removes
> any files not in that list (permissions permitting).  Run it from cron.
> Requires Python 2.3 or later.  Don't cut yourself.
You could just use fuser, as well.

Like this:

for file in /tmp/*
do 
    if [ -f $file ] && ! fuser -s $file 
    then 
        echo "$file not used by anything -- removing"
 # put remove stuff here
    fi
done