[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

Herbert Pophal pophal at tubit.tu-berlin.de
Tue Oct 21 11:31:57 UTC 2014



On 20.10.2014 22:36, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> Quoting Herbert Pophal <pophal at tubit.tu-berlin.de>:
> 
>> 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
>>>>
> 
> Nothing I know of in Horde would come even close to creating an 800 MB
> temporary file.
> 
> Maybe it is from someone trying to upload a giant file, but that's a PHP
> configuration issue and has nothing to do with Horde.

Well, I forgot to mention the file names were phpXXXXXX, being a
standard tmpnam, but php's upload dir is as well set to /var/tmp, and
the upload limit is « 500MB.

Herbert
> 
> michael
> 
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