RE: [cobalt-users] Squirrel Mail on RAQ4r

["Curtis Ross" <Curtis_Ross@xxxxxx>]

> "Curtis Ross" <Curtis_Ross@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can someone with the RC1 Squirrel Mail installed on a RAQ do me a
favour
> > and check their /tmp folder. Is there a bunch od sess_ files in
there
> > from this program?
> 
> Yes.  They are session management data files and they are a normal
part of
> running Squirrelmail.  It's a feature of PHP that makes it easy to
store
> data related to a user as the user accesses multiple pages in an
> application.  See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php for
more
> details.  When a user clicks "Sign Out" the session will be destroyed
and
> the file will be deleted.  If the user doesn't sign out the file will
stay
> there so you may want to write a script to periodically purge the
sess*
> files with a timestamp more than X days old.
> 
> --
> Steve Werby
> President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
> http://www.befriend.com/
> 
Hey Steve thanks a bunch! I kinda figured it was something like that.
I've only been testing with my own accounts so it kind of concerned me
what would happen if you had hundreds of users not signing out.

Curtis Ross