All the files seem to be multiple copies of the same few images, they all seem to be images of our company logo and stuff like that - stuff that would be on the site in various places - so its unlikely its evidence of an attack on the server. The cache is just a standard RAM Cache Manager. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Winkler [mailto:pw_lists@slinkp.com] Sent: Monday, 22 December 2003 11:58 AM To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] tens of thousands of files in Zope var directory On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:31:46AM +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:

Hi all,

We have 75,000 to 80,000 .png, .jpg and .wmf files in the Zope var directory. Where do these files come from?

This is not normal. By default, zope does not write to any files except log(s) and the database file (Data.fs). It also does write temp files in your $TMPDIR, e.g. when uploading files. But these should be cleaned up automatically.

Are they something to do with the cache? If so how do we clean them out - there couldn't be more than 20 or 30 seperate images on our whole site and the 75,000 to 80,000 are making it difficult to backup the site.

Are you sure they were put there by zope? Have you looked at some, to see what they contain? I have to wonder if someone has cracked your server and is storing illicit material.

We are running Zope 2.6.2 with Plone 1.0.5. We are using a cache manager for our site.

Which kind of cache manager? The only one I know of that writes separate files on the filesystem is Andy McKay's FSCacheManager, only available from cvs on collective.sf.net. IIRC it uses the object's getPhysicalPath() in zope to determine the filesystem path to write, which means it cannot write the same file to multiple filesystem paths - so it is very unlikely to account for your 80,000 files. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE HERMAPHRODITIC FELLOW! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )