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[Aaron Wells <1324316@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

As reported on the forum:
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=6331

Normally PHP session files get deleted by a cron job in the filesystem,
that is installed as part of the PHP module (in Debian & Ubuntu). But
Mahara does not store its session files in the default location.
Instead, it overrides session.save_path to save session files in its own
custom location under $CFG->dataroot.

As a result, Mahara session files do not get regularly deleted, unless
the server owner has changed their default location or set up a special
cron job to clean them up (or if you're using the memcached patch for
session management).

We need to add a Mahara internal crontask that checks for old session
files and deletes them.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: cron session

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1324316

Title:
  Old PHP sessions files never get deleted

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As reported on the forum:
  https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=6331

  Normally PHP session files get deleted by a cron job in the
  filesystem, that is installed as part of the PHP module (in Debian &
  Ubuntu). But Mahara does not store its session files in the default
  location. Instead, it overrides session.save_path to save session
  files in its own custom location under $CFG->dataroot.

  As a result, Mahara session files do not get regularly deleted, unless
  the server owner has changed their default location or set up a
  special cron job to clean them up (or if you're using the memcached
  patch for session management).

  We need to add a Mahara internal crontask that checks for old session
  files and deletes them.

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