those files are in fact, the socket files. We put them in /tmp because that is where:
1: We are guaranteed write privs 2: It's temporary file, traditionally socket files are written there, take xwindows for example, all of it sockets are written there. 3: From a past email from TomJ: "I certainly wouldn't think that any system would run very well if the entire /tmp directory was removed. I sometimes regret putting the socket there (yes, it was me, way back in CF 3.1) and not in the /opt/coldfusion directories, but at the time we did not have any well known place to find things. We later made it a requirement that /opt/coldfusion has to point to the install directory, wherever that really lives, but by this time it was difficult to change the location." So, it's a combo "good thing" and "because we did it originally, and couldn't change it". As it is, redhat 7.x introduced tmpwatch, a daemon like cron that goes through and deletes "stale" files in /tmp. If your cf servers been running for longer than the stale-time, tmpwatch will nuke the socket files. This is a bad thing. Technically, you should not be able to access cfserver if the socket files are missing. ======================== Jesse Noller Linux Fiend Macromedia Server Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] [root@spidermonkey]$ chown -R us:us *yourbase find / -name '*yourbase*' | xargs chown us:us > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:57 AM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: What is the /tmp/cfide file? I removed it > > > I was cleaning up some of my files in the /tmp directory and > I accidentally > removed the cfide file (why to they put these in /tmp!). > I've managed to > find out on the Allaire forums that the cfide and cfserver > files in /tmp > are sockets. > > Anyway, I stopped and restarted CF, and it removed the > cfserver file and > then recreated it, but cfide never showed back up. > Everything on my site > still seems to work fine, including the Administrator. So > does anyone know > what this file is for and how I can get it back? I checked on my > development servers and both files are there (but the dates > are 10 days > apart??). But on my other production machine only the > cfserver file is > there. Thanks for any help. > > -Ryan > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
