Cleanup of tempdir in tomcat

[Aparna Pratap <ap...@gmail.com>]

Hi
I am using Tomcat 5.0.25. In my application images are getting stored
permenantly inside tempdir of Tomcat. This is happening when the request is
not processed completely. I want to clean the tempdir either with every
request or after its size reaches some limit.
Or after some time period but without writing cron jobs. Is there any
setting in tomcat to clean the tempdir when it crosses some size limit?
Can anybody help?

Thanks,
Aparna.

Re: Cleanup of tempdir in tomcat

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

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Aparna,

Aparna Pratap wrote:
> I am using Tomcat 5.0.25. In my application images are getting stored
> permenantly inside tempdir of Tomcat. This is happening when the request is
> not processed completely. I want to clean the tempdir either with every
> request or after its size reaches some limit.

You don't want to do either of these. Regardless of the interval that
you check, you don't want to just start deleting files, or else you will
end up deleting files that are actually in use.

You should do a periodic cleanup (5 minutes, 30 minutes, one hour?) and
delete files that are older than a certain time. That way, you won't
accidentally delete something that is still in use.

> Or after some time period but without writing cron jobs. Is there any
> setting in tomcat to clean the tempdir when it crosses some size limit?
> Can anybody help?

Your basic options are to use an external scheduler (cron) or to use
something like Quartz (https://quartz.dev.java.net/) from within your
webapp.

Hope that helps,
- -chris
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