[php-maint] Bug#613345: Bug#613345: libapache2-mod-php5: gc_probability set to 0

[Ondřej Surý]

close 613345
thank you

I am sorry, but the cron job mechanism is there from php4 4:4.3.8-8
and it's well documented in php.ini (i.e. no change has happened from
2004). I don't really see a reason why we should put there in
NEWS.Debian now.

Ondrej

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 14:57, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian.org> wrote:
> reopen 613345
> retitle 613345 please document session.gc_maxlifetime being set to 0 in NEWS.Debian
> severity 613345 normal
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:03:44PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> close 613345
>> thank you
>>
>> From php5-common.README.Debian:
>>
>> Session storage
>> ---------------
>>
>>     Session files are stored in /var/lib/php5.  For security purposes, this
>>     directory is unreadable by non-root users.  This means that php5 running
>>     from apache2, for example, will not be able to clean up stale session
>>     files.  Instead, we have a cron job run every 30 mins that cleans up
>>     stale session files; /etc/cron.d/php5.  You may need to modify how
>>     often this runs, if you've modified session.gc_maxlifetime in your
>>     php.ini; otherwise, it may be too lax or overly aggressive in cleaning
>>     out stale session files.
>>
>> Andres Salomon <dilinger at debian.org>  Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:12:54 -0400
>
> Why wasn't it put in NEWS.Debian ?  I watch this file and wouldn't have
> raised the bug if I had seen that.
>
> This is a disruptive change that should go there.
> --
> ·O·  Pierre Habouzit
> ··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
> OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
>



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