Temp-files not deleted on server when validation fails!

[Andreas]

Dear Community,

when uploading a video file via paperclip, the validation failed. If
failed because of the wrong file format (that is another problem,
because it was an .flv file and the correct mime type video/x-flv is
specified in the model).

Surprisingly, the temp File of the uploaded video was still remaining
on our server. When we checked our server for more old temp files, we
noticed, that all failed to upload files were still remaining on the
server.

Is this a known problem?

Anyone, who knows a solution for this?

Many thanks so far!

Andreas

[Andreas]

Dear community,

no idea?

Has noone else this problem?

I just cannot believe this

Andreas

[Kris Leech]

Since these files are in /tmp does the OS (linux?) not automatically delete them periodically?

 Kris.

[Jonathan Yurek]

If the files are being put into the /tmp directory, then they should
have been Tempfiles, which delete themselves. Or, at least, the OS
should delete the contents of that directory occasionally. If they're
Tempfiles and didn't delete themselves, then something else is going
on. What version of Ruby are you running?

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[Andreas]

Hi Jonathan, hi Kris,

yes the files are in the tmp folder of course.

But I see the following problems: The server only deletes these files
on restarting. There are several applications running live on this
server. So we do not want to restart it if not really necessary of
course.
Moreover, I would think it is the job of the uploading application (in
this case the paperclip plugin) to delete the temp files, if
validation fails. I am not too deep in programming yet, but I think
this would be the obvious way to deal with such "garbage" files.
Or is this way not possible for reasons, I just do not know yet?

We are working on a debian linux server ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11
patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux].

Many thanks for discussing and answering here!!!

Andreas