Question: where is tmp directory now

4 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: Yesterday at 1:21pm   (RSS)

By kitsguru - Saturday at 5:35pm

We used to be able to set the tmp directory instead of using /tmp, but I can't find the setting. A couple of weeks ago, I was being hammered by several bots that filled my /tmp directory, which caused CMSB access to stop with the error message "/tmp is full".

This affected every site on the server running CMSB. When we could change it, I had tmpDir set to USERHOME/tmp. If that were still in effect, then CMSB apps would not have been impacted.

I have solved the bot problem, but I'm curious about the old setting. It appears the data/temp is not used in all cases, and /tmp is still being accessed. 

Jeff Shields
yaadev.com

By Dave - Yesterday at 11:07am

Hi Jeff, 

We try not to write to the /tmp system folder because we can't control issues such as security, disk space, and visibility.  Or even if it exists or is writable.

Do you know what kind of files were getting written and which code created them? 

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

By kitsguru - Yesterday at 11:20am - edited: Yesterday at 11:21am

I deleted the emails and cleared the logs, so I'm unsure where the issue occurred in CMSB. I updated many of the older CMSB versions to 3.78.

I have taken several measures to protect /tmp from filling up with watch scripts & cron jobs, modsec rules, and robots.txt disallow.

The files were created by the user 'nobody' when the AI and SEO bots misbehaved. 

I assume you are now using the data/temp directory, which is fine by me.

I was curious, that's all.

Jeff Shields
yaadev.com