{"id":70528,"date":"2025-11-12T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=70528"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:17:50","slug":"new-temporary-folder-arrangements-tidying-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/new-temporary-folder-arrangements-tidying-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"New Temporary Folder Arrangements Tidying Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Linux\/crontab_new_tmp.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"New Temporary Folder Arrangements Tidying Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Linux\/crontab_new_tmp.gif\" title=\"New Temporary Folder Arrangements Tidying Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Temporary Folder Arrangements Tidying Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had one public and three private dedicated virtual servers running our <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Apache\" href='https:\/\/www.apache.org\/' rel=\"noopener\">Apache<\/a>\/PHP\/MySql web server here at RJM Programming.  The last two have us transitioning from one <a target=\"_blank\" title='AlmaLinux' href='https:\/\/almalinux.org\/' rel=\"noopener\">AlmaLinux<\/a> web server to another.  What could be different?  Well <font size=1>(readers who resist reading blog posting titles)<\/font> security measures move on with a lot of upgrades and migrations in web server &#8220;land&#8221; these days.  On ours, the use of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n\/tmp<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; <font color=blue>as per<\/font> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n# df -k \/<br \/>\nFilesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on<br \/>\n\/dev\/vda1      103019024 58818836  38940980  61% \/<br \/>\n# df -k \/tmp<br \/>\nFilesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on<br \/>\n\/dev\/loop0       4054752  1108   3843932   1% <font color=blue>\/tmp<\/font><br \/>\n#<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; have in the last AlmaLinux web server incarnation become more contentious in that the RJM Programming web server username (as distinct from the administrator of <a target=\"_blank\" title='cPanel information from Wikipedia, thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CPanel' rel=\"noopener\">cPanel<\/a> username) is unable to write to this <i>\/tmp<\/i> for the first time.  This is a little bit of a peeve for us, as we have written quite a bit of PHP that uses it to read and write from, as it&#8217;s temporary storage &#8220;place of choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way we are going to rush to remedy this, but, today, after <sup>self-<\/sup>ruling out, after discussion with our web hosters, <a target=\"_blank\" title='Crazy Domains' href='http:\/\/www.crazydomains.com.au' rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Domains<\/a>, the thought of changing any file permissions here, we&#8217;re starting, sort of at the back end of the issue, fixing for the future &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title='crontab information from computerhope ... thanks' href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/jargon\/c\/cron.htm' rel=\"noopener\">crontab<\/a>  # ie. scheduled &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>file tidying (after PHP action) processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can glean what we did via watching today&#8217;s tutorial animated GIF presentation, but the gist of it involved &#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in RJM Programming cPanel&#8217;s Terminal window &#8230;<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ncrontab -l | grep '\/tmp'<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n &#8230; and copy into a text buffer &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>back in the macOS MacBook Air desktop application woooorrrrllllddd paste into a TextWrangler editor new file &#8230; and then &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>for relevant records substitute <i>\/tmp<\/i> for <i>\/home\/rjmprogr<\/i> (as our new choice of place to act as <i>the temporary storage &#8220;place of choice&#8221;<\/i> and which we successfully road tested when we presented the <a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/message-board-one-liners-aesthetics-tutorial\/' title='Message Board One Liners Aesthetics Tutorial' rel=\"noopener\">Message Board One Liners Aesthetics Tutorial<\/a> (with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/Geographicals\/diff.php?one=http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/prepend\/prepend.php-GETME\" rel=\"noopener\">it&#8217;s, early days, changed prepend.php<\/a>) thread of blog postings)<\/li>\n<li>change the minutes field 10 less for all such records<\/li>\n<li>copy this into a buffer<\/li>\n<li>back at  RJM Programming cPanel&#8217;s Terminal window &#8230;<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ncrontab -e<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n &#8230; ours uses the great <i>vi<\/i> editor where we get to the end character and type &#8220;i&#8221; for insert in order to Paste (via top menu) into the crontab file &#8230; followed by &#8220;wq&#8221; to save (with all being well will result in &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ncrontab: installing new crontab\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>)\n<\/li>\n<li>readying ourselves for either &#8220;tidying up&#8221; requirement into the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over to you &#8230; PHP!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d70528' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d70528\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/crontab\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d70528' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had one public and three private dedicated virtual servers running our Apache\/PHP\/MySql web server here at RJM Programming. The last two have us transitioning from one AlmaLinux web server to another. What could be different? 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