Bug 14557
| Summary: | tmpwatch fails to delete directories or documentation is incorrect | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kevin Way <kway> |
| Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | aleksey |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-08-13 19:58:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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source code comments also indicate that proper behavior is to delete both files and directories. #define FLAGS_ALLFILES (1 << 1) /* normally just files, dirs are removed */ *** Bug 14930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** this was fixed for our forthcoming 7.0 release - empty directories will be removed. -a will allow non-regular files such as pipes and sockets to be removed as well. |
The text of the tmpwatch man page for option -a implies that tmpwatch's default behavior is to delete both files and directories. -a, --all Remove all file types, not just regular files and directories. The actual default behavior is to just delete regular files. Directories do not get deleted unless -a is specified.