Forum :: Lounge :: Random eoserv.net Notice

Does anyone know what this notice means that I get at the top of the page sometimes? :

Notice: session_start(): ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/lib/php5) failed: Permission denied (13) in /var/www/eoserv.net/forum/.htforum/class/Session.class.php on line 17

Google ftw:

Frustratingly, if you do receive this error, you'll only get it once every hundred page loads on average. Which points to the cause of the problem: automatic session garbage collection. In Debian and Ubuntu, /var/lib/php5, where the session data is stored, has permissions of drwx-wx-wt and should only be cleaned by a cron script.

Solutions found among others:
- Prefixing the session call with '@'
- change the group to www-data and grant group read permissions with "chmod g+r" (slightly more secure than the one below)
- change the directory permissions to be world-readable
- disable garbage collection in the session config file

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Former multi-server mapper.

Should be fixed.

Misca posted: (21st Aug 2011, 01:02 am)

Google ftw:

Frustratingly, if you do receive this error, you'll only get it once every hundred page loads on average. Which points to the cause of the problem: automatic session garbage collection. In Debian and Ubuntu, /var/lib/php5, where the session data is stored, has permissions ofdrwx-wx-wtandshould only be cleaned by a cron script.

Solutions found among others:
- Prefixing the session call with '@'
- change the group to www-data and grant group read permissions with "chmod g+r" (slightly more secure than the one below)
- change the directory permissions to be world-readable
- disable garbage collection in the session config file

Quackers posted: (21st Aug 2011, 01:13 am)

Misca posted: (21st Aug 2011, 01:02 am)

Google ftw:

Frustratingly, if you do receive this error, you'll only get it once every hundred page loads on average. Which points to the cause of the problem: automatic session garbage collection. In Debian and Ubuntu, /var/lib/php5, where the session data is stored, has permissionsofdrwx-wx-wtandshould only be cleaned by a cron script.

Solutions found among others:
- Prefixing the session call with '@'
- change the group to www-data and grant group read permissions with "chmod g+r" (slightly more secure than the one below)
- change the directory permissions to be world-readable
- disable garbage collection in the session config file

Or you can just refresh your page when it happens. :)
(I get it too about every 20/30 topics or so)

Edit: Guess its fixed now lol, great job Sausage.

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Former multi-server mapper.

I've been getting those notices to randomley :o