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Server monitoring with Monit on Debian and Ubuntu systems

botond published March 2023, 01, Thu - 26:02 time
Monit is a free and open source process and resource monitoring tool that can be used to monitor system processes and resources using a web browser and command line. Monit automatically stops or restarts processes or services if, for example, they use too many resources or behave abnormally. It also sends email alerts about various events.
On this page, we install the Monit system monitor program on a Debian 10 (Buster) perfect server version 1.1, where it was not used before, and then set it up.

How to automatically clean PHP session files left in the tmp directories of web accounts in an ISPConfig server environment

botond published March 2021, 03, Thu - 04:11 time
PHP sessions are global variables that transmit data stored during web visits across multiple pages, i.e., they are not lost when moving from one page to another. PHP accomplishes this by assigning unique IDs to visits (sessions) and creating files in the server-side file structure associated with those IDs in which it stores the data required for the session. The system places these files in a specific directory, usually tmp, which is normally deleted by the garbage collector after a specified time. However, the situation is sometimes not so obvious. This is because if the PHP environment on the server changes, the garbage collector may not be able to delete these obsolete, unnecessary session files. In this description, we will look at how we can use our own solution to ensure that these session files are deleted when the default cleaning system cannot remove them.

cron (linux daemon)

Cron linux daemon manual page. The daemon lets you run timed tasks in the background.

Incrond

The incrond daemon manual page and help

Incrontab

The manual page and help for the incrontab command