Mark, That was a big help. Mainly knowing that the cleaning up of these /tmp files outside the realm of anything in my initial application. It does make sense. I'll work on a cron job to eliminate the dead wood every so often.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Mark Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. how can those unnecessary sessions be deleted? > > If you're on a unix system you can use the "find" command with the > "-mtime" option to find files in a directory older than a certain time > (-name to limit it to a certain pattern of filename). If you're not on > unix you could write a simple Perl script to do the same thing, > looping through all the filenames in a directory, using one of the -x > built-in functions. It would be simple. Pass it a path on the command > line, out put filenames in the stdout that could be used in a shell > loop to remove the files. > > Usually "store" cleanup is something done outside the session tool. > You're using files for the session store. I use cache::cache[1]. > Others use postgres. I think it's expected everyone does their own > cleanup of stores for sessions that haven't been visited after some > reasonable amount of time after the expiration time. > > I don't use cgi::session. Cees or Mark S. would have to explain it > more specifically. I like cache::cache[1] because it has a method to > purge expired cookies. I can use a scheduled script which does nothing > more than instantiate the cache and invoke the method. I think you'd > have to create a driver to use it with c::s. I understand c::c is > being redone as chi..pm (search CPAN for it). > > [1] http://search.cpan.org/~dclinton/Cache-Cache-1.05/lib/Cache/Cache.pm > > Mark > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ > ## ## > ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## > ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## > ## ## > ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## > ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## > ## ## > ################################################################ > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################