[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Tue Oct 21 18:27:37 UTC 2014


Quoting Herbert Pophal <pophal at tubit.tu-berlin.de>:

> 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.

Those are PHP generated files then.

michael

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