On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 10:01, Chris Martin wrote: > I host a site on a shared server that, recently, is constantly sending > me emails about running out of space. This account is a small (100MB) > account, and when I go into cPanel and look at the disk usage, > /tmp/urchin is usually the culprit (most of the time > 75MB). > I cleared them out Wed, and by yesterday it was full again. > > I was going to complain to my host about it, but then I realized I > wasn't sure how those were supposed to be cleared out. > I wasn't sure if they were supposed to auto-magically evaporate, or if I > should setup a cron job or something. I've never run into this before so > I was hoping one of you might be able to shine some light on it.
Not heavily tested (I ran it twice), but attached is a Python script that uses lsof to get a list of open files in a directory, then removes any files not in that list (permissions permitting). Run it from cron. Requires Python 2.3 or later. Don't cut yourself. Regards, Cliff -- Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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