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



On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:54:37AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> 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

You must have meant 
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sess+files

And, nope, nothing useful.

Tony

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