PF 3.6.0 ZEN, upgraded to 3.6.1.  PacketFence appears to
be leaving cgisess_[long_hex_string] files behind in /tmp .
It apparently overflowed the maximum amount of files allowed
in an EXT3 directory overnight, as PF was complaining about
not having free disk space despite there being 8 gigs free
according to df.

Someone else encountered this problem with PF 3.2 last
July, but nobody responded to his question about whether
these files should be purged daily.  I'll ask again, and
also add a second question about whether there is an
automated/scheduled maintenance routine in PF that is
supposed to be taking care of these files but is not
working on my system for some reason?

As I discovered this morning, the system will DoS itself
sooner or later when it can't open any more session files,
and the ls command won't even work in the /tmp folder
with that many files...

-Arthur

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