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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Heads up for anyone NOT running RT on a Linux box:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This good advice from the RT/FM works great on Linux variants - since the Linux 'find' understands '-amin +600' to mean anything that hasn't been accessed in the last ten hours.</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">WARNING: Do not install this cron job or run this find command if your MASON_SESSION_PATH (known in config.pm as $MasonSessionDir) points to a directory that could EVER contain any file that's not a Apache::Session datafile.</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
If you're running RT on it's own, this should not be an issue. Add these lines to /etc/crontab: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># Every hour, delete session files and lockfiles that haven't</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># been touched in 10 hours</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">0 * * * * find /path/to/rt2/WebRT/sessiondata -type f -amin +600 -exec rm '{}' \;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Solaris 'find' is a little less granular - you have to change the '-amin +600' to '-atime +1' - which means that anything that hasn't been touched in the last day [24 hours] gets deleted.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm guessing that if you're handy enough to get RT running on Solaris, you probably either already knew this or had the wherewithal to figure it out for yourself.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For me it was one of those low-priority fixes that I just got around to doing when I noticed that 'sessiondata' had some month-old files in it. If you don't have a very large WebRT partition on your box, this could eventually be a problem. So. If you use Solaris, change your crontab to this instead:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># Every hour, delete session files and lockfiles that haven't</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># been touched in 10 hours</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">0 * * * * find /path/to/rt2/WebRT/sessiondata -type f -atime +1 -exec rm '{}' \;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Oh - and if you didn't know this, cron isn't very happy when a crontab file contains blank lines. If you want to 'doublespace' your cron entries for readability, start each 'empty' line with a #</FONT></P>
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