[rt-users] Big size of /opt/rt4/var directory

[Kevin Falcone]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:31:23PM +0400, Ivan Osipov wrote:
> I'm using Request Tracker 4.2.1 and Lighttpd (1.4.28-2ubuntu4) via
> fastcgi on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
> Now size of "/opt/rt4/var" directory is 5.2 Gb and full backup
> archive of "/opt/rt4/" is very big.
> In this directory a lot of folders with random name:
> ---
> ls -la /opt/rt4/var
> [...]
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 19:19 xO_kAcCdQA
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 20:34 xR08jEpXhN
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 18:21 y2A3tJXMy8
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 21:01 Y5mPEdMSWh
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 17:42 yBixm9CtAO
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 17:41 yeihY9J9VX
> drwx------   2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec 30 22:25 yKjJdoKUNU
> [...]
> ---
> Can I delete all this folders from "/opt/rt4/var"? If yes, how to
> delete this folders automaticaly? This is cache of attachments?

When you ran file on one of these, or opened one up in a text editor,
what was the content of the files?

RT wouldn't normally write things into /opt/rt4/var.  Subdirectories
of /opt/rt4/var sure, but not the top level.

-kevin
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