[Mapserver-users] How to empty the TMP directory

[Heitzso]

There's probably a dozen ways of solving this problem.

On my end I have a cron job that runs every hour and deletes the files
that are more than X hours old.  (*nix land). 

You could do the same in Windows but there's a bug in the scheduler code 
and if a
task takes too little time the thread handling tangles and the scheduler 
locks up.
The trick there is to use some sort of sleep/pause command in the batch 
file run
by the scheduler.  This gets around the Microsoft buggy code by taking 
up some time
while the scheduler sorts out its threads.

Back to *nix side of things, the crontab entry something like:
5 * * * * find /var/httpd/html/whatever/tmp -name '*.png' -ctime +240 
-exec rm {} \;
modified accordingly for your system.

Guillaume MOCCAND wrote:

>hi,
>
>i wonder how i can empty the TMP directory that contains all the files created 
>by Mapserver.
>do i need to configure Mapserver or do i need to proceed without using 
>Mapserver.
>
>Thanks
>
>Guillaume MOCCAND
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