Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] Need your advice on php5 session files - [Fwd: Bug#479905: phpgroupware-0.9.16-core-base: /var/lib/phpgroupware/sessions grows as files are never purged]

[Olivier Berger]

Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 22:02 +0200, chris a écrit :
> Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 07:11 -0500, Chris Weiss a écrit :
> 
> > 
> > it's always been my impression that php's garbage collection, not a
> > cron job, handles removing old session files.  maybe what we have a
> > bug in php itself...
> > 
> Garbage collection is disabled in debian, this allows strict permissions
> on /var/lib/php5.
> drwx-wx-wt  2 root root 4096 avr 18 10:09 .
> 
> That if I understand well, let any user create a file and only the one
> that created the file remove it.
> So it is not possible to parse the directory. Thats why the cron job is
> there.
> My guess is that we will need to enable the gc
> in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpgroupware
> 
>       php_value session.gc_probability 1
> 

Hmmm... Chris, can you provide some ref docs on that garbage
collecting ?

I'm not sure you came to the same conclusion, reading your other post at
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-php-maint/2008-May/004010.html :-/

Can you summarize your advice (and CC:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479905) ?

Best regards,
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