map file in tmp directory

[Puneet Kishor]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Chip Taylor wrote:

> As opposed to map mode.  Map mode streams the image directly to the 
> browser
> and does not create the image in the ImagePath

ahhh! There you go. You solved your problem. ;-)

Wrt, the "browse" mode, yes, you will have to remove the temp files 
yourself, but it is a trivial task happily tackled by your operating 
system. Why bother MapServer with housekeeping... it has bigger things 
to accomplish.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Puneet Kishor
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:10 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] map file in tmp directory
>
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Chip Taylor wrote:
>
>> I was aghast to find over 4,000 files in my /tmp directory.  That is
>> the
>> directory I have designated as the IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL for
>> MapServer.  I
>> know that these files are only created if MapServer is run in Browse
>> mode.
>
> as opposed to what other mode?


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Puneet Kishor