Running out of inodes constantly, sessionclean throwing up errors (14.04)

Turbocapitalist · 06-03-2016, 04:07 AM

The line that looks like it is intended to delete them would be towards the bottom:

Code:

+ find -O3 /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -name sess_* -ignore_readdir_race -type f -cmin +1440 -delete

What happens when you modify it to just show what it finds and then run it manually?

Code:

find -O3 /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -name sess_* -ignore_readdir_race -type f -cmin +1440 -print

Does it find anything at all?

mdotk · 06-03-2016, 04:16 AM

Code:

root@web:~# find -O3 /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -name sess_* -ignore_readdir_race -type f -cmin +1440 -print
find: warning: you have specified the -ignore_readdir_race option after a non-option argument -name, but options are not positional (-ignore_readdir_race affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it).  Please specify options before other arguments.

mdotk · 06-03-2016, 04:45 AM

Switched the variables and ran this, and got nothing back:

Code:

root@web:~# find -O3 /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -ignore_readdir_race -name sess_* -type f -cmin +1440 -print
root@web:~#

Turbocapitalist · 06-03-2016, 04:49 AM

Ok. Their script has a bug in it. The correct order should have -ignore_readdir_race ahead of -name. Also I had forgotten the quotes needed above in -name:

Code:

find /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -ignore_readdir_race -name 'sess_*' -type f -cmin +1440 -print

If that does not print anything, try eliminating the age requirement

Code:

find /var/lib/php/sessions -depth -mindepth 1 -ignore_readdir_race -name 'sess_*' -type f -print

The manual page for "find" has a list of what the options do, but it may be helpful to know that there is an implied logical AND between the options unless specified otherwise.

mdotk · 06-04-2016, 05:36 AM

Update: the problem is solved! Changing the directory to "/var/lib/php/sessions" and also hardcoding the variables seemed to work! Thank you so much for your help it has been much appreciated!

I now have some pesky hidden folders in each of the old sessions directories that I am trying to delete:

Code:

root@web:/var/lib/hhvm/sessions# ls -al
total 109860
drwx-wx-wt 2 root root 112484352 Jun  1 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root      4096 Apr 30  2015 ..
root@web:/var/lib/hhvm/sessions# stat .
  File: ‘.’
  Size: 112484352 	Blocks: 219712     IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fc00h/64512d	Inode: 397720      Links: 2
Access: (1733/drwx-wx-wt)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2016-06-03 13:47:55.401411156 -0400
Modify: 2016-06-01 15:49:29.422304013 -0400
Change: 2016-06-01 15:49:29.422304013 -0400
 Birth: -
root@web:/var/lib/hhvm/sessions# rm -rf .
rm: cannot remove directory: ‘.’

pan64 · 06-04-2016, 05:44 AM

. and .. cannot be removed

Turbocapitalist · 06-04-2016, 05:46 AM

Excellent. Just remember later that the directories an other items are hardcoded.

The dot . and double dot .. directories are shortcuts. The single dot . is a shortcut meaning the current directory. The double dot means the directory above the current directory. It's probably not a good idea to erase those.

If you're moving around directories a lot in a single window you might look at 'cd -' which hops you back to the previous directory. Or else 'pushd .' and 'popd' are useful to hop around. Of course its also easy to just open another terminal window.

mdotk · 06-05-2016, 04:45 AM

Thanks again guys