/scripts/securetmp kills apache

[PPNSteve]

we just ran the script /scripts/securetmp and for some reason now apache doesn't serve pages anymore. whm/cpanel still load fine but noneof our clients sites load.
also before apache quit, we were getting reports of MySQL errors (somethingabout can not write to /tmp/<name>.MYI

any ideas? suggestions on how to fix this?

[chirpy]

Have you tried stopping and starting apache and checking the error log if it fails to start?

Is there a mysql lock file in the /tmp directory symlinked to the real lock file? Have you tried to restart mysql?

[casey]

Yeah, securetmp will remove the mysql.lock file. You will need to replace it. It shouldn't affect apache.

[chirpy]

When you run securetmp it is meant to copy the lock file. You can recreate it with:

cd /tmp
ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Then restart MySQL.

[casey]

When you run securetmp it is meant to copy the lock file.

You're right. Will was too strong a word. But that was my experience. Other than that it worked great and I was pleased with the results.

[PPNSteve]

Yes restarted everything multiple times.. same resuslts - no web pages served. it's something to do with the /tmp dir filling up (though it's never done this before)

Ok seems that symlink is there:

-rw-rw---- 1 mario mario 13 Aug 4 23:41 mario-session-0.104264456170739
-rw-r--r-- 1 rhonin rhonin 12288 Aug 7 15:52 mt-throttle.db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 9 13:37 mysql.sock -> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock=
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody nobody 13 Aug 9 00:17 nobody-session-0.193462843864353
-rw-rw---- 1 pinkligh pinkligh 13 Aug 3 21:00 pinkligh-session-0.462735665586905

now every few hours appche will stop serving pages (it's still running fine)
after we remove some .wrk files apache starts serving pages again..

any other suggestions?

[PPNSteve]

edit /scripts/securetmp
and fine the line
system("dd","if=/dev/zero","of=/usr/tmpDSK","bs=1024","count=256000");
change it to:
system("dd","if=/dev/zero","of=/usr/tmpDSK","bs=1024","count=1024000");

then
/scripts/securetmp

If you already /scripts/securetmp
then you need to umount /tmp
rm -rf /usr/tmpDSK
and then run:
/scripts/securetmp

tried this.. will see how it goes thru-out today.. (/tmp is now at 2.3Mb size)

hopefully this will fix it. :|