Bug 109005

Summary: logwatch creates bogus tmpdirs at /
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component: logwatchAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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patch to fix the issue; also reported upstream (without response) none

Description Pekka Savola 2003-11-04 07:23:44 UTC
Logwatch 4.3.1 creates bogus directories in /, like tmplogwatch.1460.

Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2003-11-04 07:24:55 UTC
Created attachment 95702 [details]
patch to fix the issue; also reported upstream (without response)

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2003-12-17 19:29:28 UTC
FWIW, a similar fix has been merged about 6 weeks ago and appears to 
be present in logwatch 5.0:

http://www2.cvs.logwatch.org:81/index.cgi/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
.diff?r1=1.95&r2=1.96

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2004-08-20 19:44:23 UTC
Cool, a patch is upstream, assuming this is fixed.