Rails - Dec 2005 - session temp files?

I''m running a simple WEBrick server for a small rails website.   I
probably
get less than 100 hits per hour.  I just looked in /tmp on the server and 
there are over 10,000 ruby_sess.* temp files containing:

"       hash{"
flashIC:''ActionController::Flash::FlashHash{:
@used{

They''ve piled up so much that I can''t even rm -f ruby*.   Bash
complains
"argument list too long"

How do people typically clean these up?    A cron job?  Can they all be 
safely deleted or should I only delete "older than...." files?

Thanks,

Gary

to delete session files older than 120 minutes, you might try,

   find /dir/to/clean -type f -iname "ruby_sess*" -cmin +120 -exec rm
{} \;

for a low-volume site i would continue to use pstore, and run a cron job to
periodically clean.

if the excess files are bothersome, you could always change to a different
store,
   http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/MemCached/versions/1
or ActiveRecordStore,
   http://railswiki.pdxruby.org/HowtoChangeSessionStore.html
among others.



Gary Huntress wrote:
> I''m running a simple WEBrick server for a small rails website.   I
> probably get less than 100 hits per hour.  I just looked in /tmp on the 
> server and there are over 10,000 ruby_sess.* temp files containing:
> 
> "       hash{"
> flashIC:''ActionController::Flash::FlashHash{:
> @used{
> 
> They''ve piled up so much that I can''t even rm -f ruby*.  
Bash complains
> "argument list too long"
> 
> How do people typically clean these up?    A cron job?  Can they all be 
> safely deleted or should I only delete "older than...." files?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary