[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

Juan Bernhard juan at inti.gob.ar
Thu Oct 16 16:18:22 UTC 2014


> Hi,
> 
> I do not know whether this is the right list to bother with: We recently
> noticed the existence of a bunch of moderately big files (about 800M
> each) in /tmp containing mail stuff on two of our machines running horde
> webmail, thus causing the monitor to moan about almost full disks. I
> would like to know what this is and how to avoid it.
> 
> Best Regards
> Herbert
> 

It might be the mail cache. Check the file owner (must be the web server
user) and stop apache before delete. Its a good policy to put all this
growing and not critial stuff (log files also grow, but some programs,
will crash if they cant log) in a different disk partition.



Saludos, Juan.


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