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

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Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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