Resolved php sessions files not deleted under ubuntu

[Brujo]

Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS‬
Product Plesk Onyx Version 17.5.3 Update #42
Several versions of php handler

On my ubuntu system the /var/lib/php is fast growing with thousends of session files which does not get deleted, indeed there was so many files that rm was struggling to delete it at once.

Well I was able to do it manually and created a cronjob, but I am wondering which script - cronjob usualy takes care about to delete old session fles from /var/lib/php ?

I found something about in the KB but just for REL based Systems, but not for ubuntu,

 

[MarkM]

This looks like the Ubuntu version;

PHP session cleanup does not work in Plesk on Debian/Ubuntu

 

[Brujo]

had allready seen this, but it seems to be different under ubuntu 16.04

in cron.d there is

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   670 Mar  1  2016 php

# Look for and purge old sessions every 30 minutes
09,39 *     * * *     root   [ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php/sessionclean

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2918 Jun 22  2017 sessionclean

well I see that the cronjob runs every 30 min the sessionclean script in the syslog, but the session files did not get deleted in /var/lib/php

 

[MarkM]

Check SELinux... might be a long shot.