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redmine@code:~/redmine/tmp$ cd sessions
redmine@code:~/redmine/tmp/sessions$ ls | wc
695155 695155 18769185
redmine@code:~/redmine/tmp/sessions$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 10562848 6896592 3129680 69% /
tmpfs 524288 0 524288 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 28 10212 1% /dev
/dev/sda3 20642428 1573640 18020212 9% /repositories
redmine@code:~/redmine/tmp/sessions$

• run rake secret and note the output ...

• edit redmine/config/environment.rb to contain:

config.action_controller.session = {
  :session_key => '_redmine_session',
  :secret      => 'the secret output by the rake secret command'
}

• also in redmine/config/environment.rb, comment out anything like conf.action_controller.session_store = ??? (as rails defaults to cookie store)

• restart the redmine server

got rid of about 95% of the files

with command like

find redmine/tmp/sessions -type f -ctime +15 -exec rm {} \;

It ran overnight ... but now an ls in that directory finishes in seconds rather than minutes or hours.

Will do this again once per week for another couple of weeks till the directory is empty. As the last few sessions become two weeks old, they will be cleaned up.

I suppose I should just erase it all in one shot, but it's almost done now.

If more session files were being created, a cron job would take care of it.