uploading files/ Temp directory

[Anon]

I am trying to upload files to a NT 4.0 system running php 4. Everything works fine until I try to upload a file which exceeds the maximum size allowed. I do get "none" for the filename created-> but there is a new filecreated in the temp dir, which is not deleted after the script is run...

What can i do? can I change the php.ini to fix this, or is this a bug?

stefan

[Anon]

You can edit the php.ini and set the upload_max_filesize var in order to upload bigger files.

[Anon]

thanx for the tip... the problem is that I assume, that if a couple thousand people would try to upload a file which is too big- a thousand template files would be created and never deleted...

I asked a friend of mine who is using linux... same problem-> so I am starting to assume this is more like a bug in the fileupload code

- any thoughts??

[Anon]

well the usual directory is /tmp so as you know most files in there should be deleted after a little period of time, one way to do this is just create a perl script and then add it to crontab, so you should not be really worried about files in /tmp directory.

[Anon]

While doing a search on Temp directories, I came across this recent discussion. I need to create more space in my Temp directory, but am not sure if it is safe to delete what's there. I don't recognize the terms, crontab and perl script.

Help

[Anon]

I can't really help you on that specific question, but maybe I can ******** cron
and perl...

cron as like an automated task, that gets called and executed once a week, a day or a minute etc. Picture it like this. You tell your operating system you want a particular program be run automatically. Cron then starts the execution of that program when the time is come

Using this funktionality (on linux machines)
you could write a perl script that deletes everythig in the temp directory.

Perl, is a "scripting language". Which runs on quite some platforms (Linux, Windows NT...) and is normally used to write cgi programs running on internet servers. You might check out "www.perl.com"...

[Anon]

Everything works as mentioned in the examples for file uploading except that when I check my temp directory I cannot see the file that I uploaded ... the temp directory is empty.

I am using PHP4 with APACHE on WINDOWS 95

Where has the file gone ?

Can anybody solve this mystery ??

Until Then.......

Neville.