Cyberpanel Openlitespeed Issue with PHP Session Files Cleanup on Ubuntu 18

April 13, 2021
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There’s an issue with the Cyberpanel installation using Openlitespeed on Ubuntu 18 where the PHP session files aren’t removed by the system installed.

You might see issues in your /usr/local/lsws/log/error.log like this

  60789 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099775 [WARN] [30587] [UDS://tmp/lshttpd/wordp1606.sock] Can not start this external application.
  60790 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099798 [NOTICE] [30586] [billi9809.655340]: Failed to open pid file [/tmp/lshttpd/billi9809.sock.pid]: No space left on device
  60791 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099823 [ERROR] [30586] [billi9809.655340]: Failed to lock pid file for [/tmp/lshttpd/billi9809.sock]: No space left on device
  60792 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099838 [WARN] [30586] [UDS://tmp/lshttpd/billi9809.sock] Can not start this external application.
  60793 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099853 [INFO] [30586] [UDS://tmp/lshttpd/wordp1606.sock] Error Timeout, restart and try again!
  60794 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099862 [NOTICE] [30589] [billi9809.655340]: Failed to open pid file [/tmp/lshttpd/billi9809.sock.pid]: No space left on device
  60795 2021-04-12 10:58:36.099883 [ERROR] [30589] [billi9809.655340]: Failed to lock pid file for [/tmp/lshttpd/billi9809.sock]: No space left on device

The cause is related to the build of of PHP session files in the /tmp folder, which usually is cleaned out by a cronjob in /etc/cron.d/php that calls /usr/lib/php/sessionclean which of course fails to running correctly due to lsphp nor working as intended.

The solution? Create a cronjob to delete the sess_ files. Here’s an example I found online

❯ cat lsphp-session
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
path_of_session_files=/tmp
find $path_of_session_files -type f -cmin +720 -name "sess_*" -delete

Add this code to a file an placed it in /etc/cron.daily, make sure to chmod u+x so its executable.

That’s it!

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