On 02/01/2011 02:05 PM, till wrote:
In addition to what Alec said -- sessions are usually taken care of PHP itself. So e.g. you register a session handler and this is also where "gc" is registered and then PHP executes this based on session.gc_* settings in your php.ini.
On some Linux distros (like Debian/Ubuntu) that part is particulary broken as they disable PHP's garbage collector and assume sessions are in /tmp and run a cronjob on it instead of using the build in gargabe collector.
ah - this might be the issue then :) i'm running on debian and adapted my cronjobs to clean the correct session directory, as this is neither /tmp/ nor /var/lib/php5/.
my php.ini shows:
zend.enable_gc => On => On session.gc_divisor => 1000 => 1000 session.gc_maxlifetime => 1440 => 1440 session.gc_probability => 0 => 0
-> gc will runy with a probability of 0/1000 :)
what about rc using "ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);"?
thanks, raoul