temp upload files

temp upload files

[Andy Koch]

Hi,

Question about temp files created when Apache/Passenger is receiving
uploaded files.

I noticed in /tmp there were many files like "RackMultipart2009....".
Some of them were quite old, over a month old.

I'm wondering why these stale upload files are still present in /tmp?

There seems to be some auto-cleaning happening, since there were many
more uploads than what was listed in /tmp.

I thought maybe they resulted from incomplete uploads, perhaps if the
client uploading stops mid-stream.  But then we tried an upload and
the temp RackMultipart files were still in /tmp after the files had
been completely uploaded.

Also, is there a recommended way to remove these stale files?  I can
do a cron job easy enough, but maybe there is a Passenger setting I'm
not aware of?

Thank you,