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Re: [EP-tech] Upload by URL floods /tmp

Temp file management varies; RHEL/Fedora have been deleting temp files for a long time, Debian hasn’t ever gone that route.

RHEL automatically runs tmpwatch


The equivalent on Debian appears to be tmp reaper; though considering it hasn’t had an update in 8 years it seems a ‘buyer beware’ situation.

MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" claiming to be https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tmpreaper 

I suggest systems-tmpfiles may be a better management mechanism for newer systems, and may be directly applicable to Yuri’s comment below



On a related note, I’ve just discovered that eprints calls wget directly, which I wasn’t expecting.
karl.

On 26 Sep 2018, at 5:31 pm, Yuri via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

Also uploading can fill the "apache" tmp (this is debian, eprints 3.3.15):

# ls -lh
/tmp/systemd-private-xywxywzzxwy4e400b8e58e43bcaff8191-apache2.service-xxxxxx/tmp/
total 2,2G
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 152K set 20 10:23 0q3cu3jxbk
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data  45K set 13 11:06 0xJWXvrMeQ
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data  41K set 19 15:24 1BsugzoYGG
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data  49K set 11 12:26 8W8w2f_Ha8
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 161K set 20 10:05 blLb6kH2VI
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 7,8M set 20 11:47 bN6gHQJOLk
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1,4G set 13 16:57 eXjmPVqRmL
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data  41M set 20 11:18 fieMadumzJ
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 161M set 20 10:18 HAYoNR5DsR
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 345K set 14 10:29 ntEJoSPI5v
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 6,9M set 20 11:43 oSrLVzpz2d
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 230M set 18 15:04 rfbO9v8IjM
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 156M set 19 15:24 thM9gxJrFY
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data  41M set 20 11:19 v6Pa6Xauk3
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 161M set 20 17:03 YMJ_gsuJSn
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 161K set 20 10:19 _YzgIMPoVJ

this files never get deleted.

Il 26/09/18 08:53, Emilian Mitocariu via Eprints-tech ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding this issue: 
> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" claiming to be https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/427
> Is it safe to simply delete the files generated in /tmp or what is the
> recommended way to clean /tmp without breaking something. In case it
> matters, I run eprints 3.3.15.



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