cgi sessions

[Javier Valencia]

Well, after some brain sucking, i've got the solution, i have been
creating several cgi objects, so finally it was a mess.

Code clean-up and working now.
But i see that sessions are stored in /tmp, and even setting the
'session_expires' with Time.now + 10, files remain in harddisk.

Also, i've seen that session.delete works and deletes the current
session file, but if it's not called (a user closes the browser when he
want) the file remains in hd, wasting resources.

Do you know how to manage those files?

 

[Kent Sibilev]

Well, after some brain sucking, i've got the solution, i have been
creating several cgi objects, so finally it was a mess.

Code clean-up and working now.
But i see that sessions are stored in /tmp, and even setting the
session_expires' with Time.now + 10, files remain in harddisk.

Also, i've seen that session.delete works and deletes the current
session file, but if it's not called (a user closes the browser when
he want) the file remains in hd, wasting resources.

Do you know how to manage those files?

You can install a cron job to periodically delete session files.

Cheers,
Kent

 

[Bill Kelly]

You can install a cron job to periodically delete session files.

I'm using:

find ~/my-session-dir -type f -amin +60 | xargs rm

This deletes any files last accessed longer than 60
minutes ago. Our site doesn't have heavy traffic so
I just run the above command every time the CGI script
is invoked.


HTH,

Regards,

Bill