Bug 103720

Summary: logwatch creates bogus tempdirs in root
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component: logwatchAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
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patch to fix bogus tmp dirs none

Description Pekka Savola 2003-09-04 11:12:21 UTC 
Logwatch 4.3.1 creates bogus directories in /, like :

drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jul 20 04:22 tmplogwatch.1460
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jul 13 04:22 tmplogwatch.16967
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug  3 04:22 tmplogwatch.20148
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jul  9 15:57 tmplogwatch.20451
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug 17 04:22 tmplogwatch.23379
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug 31 04:22 tmplogwatch.26198
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug 10 04:22 tmplogwatch.5321
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Aug 24 04:22 tmplogwatch.9072

This is fixed by the attached patch.

I've also set the patch upstream, as the CVS version is also buggy.
Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2003-09-04 11:13:01 UTC 
Created attachment 94195 [details]
patch to fix bogus tmp dirs
Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2003-09-05 18:05:03 UTC 
Fix is in CVS, will get to rawhide eventually.