[horde] temp files in horde

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Quoting cheese at nosuchhost.net:

> thanks for your fast answer. sorry if i did not bring all needed info
> beforehand.
>
> we have Hashtable as sessionhandler and in php we store sessiondata in
> memcache (clustered over 2 systems). the data in tmpdir *seems* to come
> only from imp.
> sql is a galera/mysql database in our installation and shared across all 8
> hordes.
>
> $conf['session']['name'] = 'Horde';
> $conf['session']['use_only_cookies'] = true;
> $conf['session']['timeout'] = 0;
> $conf['session']['cache_limiter'] = 'nocache';
> $conf['session']['max_time'] = 32400;
> $conf['sessionhandler']['params']['track'] = true;
> $conf['sessionhandler']['type'] = 'HashTable';
> $conf['sessionhandler']['hashtable'] = true;
> $conf['vfs']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
> $conf['vfs']['type'] = 'Sql';
>
> what i miss is an explicit configured vfsroot.
>
> josef
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, Arjen de Korte wrote:
>
>> Citeren cheese at nosuchhost.net:
>>
>>> dear all,
>>>
>>> hope you are being healthy even during corona-time.
>>>
>>> i have a question concerning $conf['tmpdir'] from conf.php
>>>
>>> we have several horde-instances behind a loadbalancer and those hordes
>>> share a single tmpdir. this was because if we take down one of our
>>> horde-machine for maintenance we would like our users to be able to work
>>> without interruption.
>>
>> Sharing a single tmpdir is probably *not* the best idea. What you  
>> really want in this scenario, is sharing the session data (and  
>> maybe VFS). In order to do that, configure a Session Handler that  
>> is able to support this (a Distributed Hashtable or if you can't  
>> use that, either SQL or NoSQL Database). You really shouldn't use  
>> filebased sessions in a load balancing setup. You may need to  
>> configure a common $conf[vfs][params][vfsroot] too.
>>
>>> now we see alot of files in that shared folder:
>>>
>>> * we have a lot of img* files, some of them with size 0
>>> * Horde* files, some of them empty, some with image-data, some with
>>> contents of adressbooks
>>> * horde_dns.cache - we once had troubles as that file got currupted and
>>> all apaches crashed because of that.
>>> * horde_form* - most of them empty
>>> * impatt* - seem to be attachments
>>> * php* - images and other data
>>> * .horde/imp/compose/uuid files - some seem to be complete mails, some
>>> just images, zip-files
>>>
>>> are there any implications in sharing those folder between all instances
>>> of our hordes? maybe horde1 and horde2 try to use the same file?
>>>
>>> how often should we delete files from that folder. we had lots of old
>>> files there, some of them several weeks or even months.
>>
>> Clearing the session files after $conf[session][max_time] is  
>> probably safe to do. Regarding stuff in the VFS, depends on how you  
>> configured this.
>>
>>> any best-practise from other installations?
>>>
>>> thanks for all input
>>> yours
>>> josef

I have a similar setup. I use Redis for session data, and /tmp for  
file data. Here's my vfs config.

$conf['vfs']['params']['vfsroot'] = '/tmp';
$conf['vfs']['type'] = 'File';

Any file in /tmp older than seven days is deleted though a cron script.