I'm guessing this issue is re: Drupal 5, but in Drupal 6 there is an over-zealous temp file cleanup, it only allows them to stick around for 24 minutes. http://drupal.org/node/276018 --mark On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
It is a development request to the extent that this may be a "bug by design"; what is supposed to happen to the tmp files? Are people who may not be system admin gurus supposed to know that these files accumulate, and what to do with them?
But the OP didn't raise a development topic; it was a topic of support. There is a different list for that.
I'm on the fence. Largely:
* if Drupal is leaving tmp files around, something has gone wrong at a high enough level that we probably /can't/ "fix it" by removing the temp files.
* most servers have a tmpwatch utility of some kind that automatically purges left over files. This, of course, presumes that Drupal's temp directory remains at the default /tmp. If it's moved elsewhere, then Drupal becomes responsible for cleaning up the files (and we'd probably want to implement some sort of post-cleanup in a cron).
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