Re: re:[PHP] 4.3.1 sessions not expiring / garbage collection not working

At 11:20 AM 4/4/2003, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:

How much traffic does this site get? Is it possible that the garbage collection is just never triggered? What if you up the garbage collection probability in your php.ini file to 100% (to trigger it with each session start)? Do the files get removed then?

AHA! That's it! I thought the default was 1%, which should have been enough as I had several hundred session files there, but it was at 1/1000 or 0.1% Thank you, Barry

I'm sure this isn't the problem, but the OS must be able to track the last "access" time of the file in order for garbage collection to work. I'm sure RedHat does that, but I'm just bringing it up. Can you write a simple PHP script to try and delete one of these files? Just a one liner using ulink() would work. You could then see if PHP, running as Apache, has any issues accessing these files. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Gould" <php-general@pennysaverusa.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:10 PM Subject: [PHP] re:[PHP] 4.3.1 sessions not expiring / garbage collection not working Any other ideas on this? Should I submit it to the bug system? Thanks, Barry

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:25:16 -0800 Hi, I'm having a problem where session files are not expiring or getting

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I'm running RedHat 7.3 (which normally expires sessions fine). I removed the RedHat PHP packages (rpm -e), and compiled and installed

PHP

4.3.1 from source. './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-gd' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' I'm using the php.ini-recommended, with ONLY the following changes: display_errors = On session.save_path = /tmp/php session.auto_start = 1 session.entropy_length = 16 session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom Following some documentation I found somewhere on php.net, I have the permissions on /tmp/php equal to 310:

ls -l /tmp

d-wx--x---    2 apache   apache      17408 Apr  3 11:14 php

There are hundreds of files in there; many are over 1 week old. I've just tried changing the permissions to 770 (drwxrwx---) and restarting apache; it doesn't seem to be making any difference. apache is apache-1.3.27-2 from RedHat's RPM Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you, Barry Gould -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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