[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

[Herbert Pophal]

On 16.10.2014 18:18, Juan Bernhard wrote:
>> 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

It is the user horde runs as, of course.

> 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.
> 
Provided this is the right config option:

$conf['cache']['params']['dir'] = '/var/tmp';

Not /tmp, since years.

Best Regards
Herbert