Sessions failing at a regular basis.

[Smo]

Hey,
I keep getting this error once in while on my site:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /home/killbord/public_html/thisnthat.php on line 2

Is there anything I can do about it. or do I have to notify thechsupport everytime?

would something like:

if (session_start()) {
   //do smething
} else {
   // don't run any user features.
} 

[edit]
The error only occures for short moments (few mins) once in a while (every few days)

[gerilya]

Is there anything I can do about it. or do I have to notify thechsupport everytime?

Actually, both
Server should allow write access to /tmp at all times, so what you experience is server misconfiguration and should be handled by support.

You can, however, modify PHP code so that it won't rely on /tmp directory to store session data. In order to do that, either call session_save_path("/some/directory") where /some/directory is world writeable directory under your account or use .htaccess file to modify value of session.save_path setting.

For more information check session-save-path doc and Session Handling Functions.
Hope that helps.