We have an Apache HTTP server up and running, which serves dynamically created zip archives to the users which are possibly several 100s of megabytes in size. As we create a new file with every click on the "download" button (even if the content did not change...), we will most likely run into disc capacity problems.
I have a rather dumb script running that deletes all files that have been created 90+minutes ago. Obviously not that nice of a solution.
I was wondering how to determine from the command line of the server when a download finished, successfully or not. In that case I can delete that file as it will not be served twice. Thinking about it, it might even be sufficient to check if the server is using a file or not as it is created right before it is served to the client.
Thanks!