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From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: PHP Session Support in /tmp
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> APseudoUtopia wrote:
>> Hey.
>>
>> PHP stores session data for the 'file' handler in /tmp, by default.
>> For organizational purposes, I'd like to change this to something like
>> /tmp/php_sessions/ or so. However, I have the clear_tmp_enable feature
>> enabled, so /tmp is cleared on reboot. PHP wont create the
>> php_sessions dir on it's own.
>>
>> So basically, I'm looking for a way to create the dir
>> /tmp/php_sessions/ each time the server is booted BEFORE apache
>> starts. I'm sure I could do this somehow with the rc.d scripts, but I
>> really have no idea how.
> 
> man 8 rc.local
> 
And, by way of an alternate suggestion, remember that cron(8)
recognizes an "@reboot" special string instead of the normal
five-field time indicators.

@reboot		/bin/mkdir /tmp/php_sessions

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey

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