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Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes



On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Tony Baldwin <tony@tonybaldwin.info> wrote:
> Yesterday I could not log into a site on a little server here in my office.
> I ssh-ed to the box, and found that the "disk is full" (thus could not write to disk).
> df -h showed nothing of the sort, but df -i showed that / was 100% full of inodes.
> I'v e since found that apache2 is writing files with names of a nature like
> sess_908H908NF90821089HGARBleddygo0KH3r3
> in /tmp at a rate of about 20 or 30 files/minute.
> [...]

Does searching the web for "sess files" produce any meaningful results?

https://www.google.com/search?q=sess+files

-- 
Joel Rees

Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.


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