Bug 224
| Summary: | Tmpwatch doesn't clean some man pages | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc MERLIN <marc_soft> |
| Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-06-07 09:47:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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fixed in rawhide. This was fixed in RH 5.9 but RH 6.0 switched back to having just: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp /var/tmp /var/catman/cat? Is this intentional? No just a screwup. I've fixed this again in our repository, and build tmpwatch-1.7-2. Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/commit/ba79789cd82ca64f9dfddaae7498f1c681b221c0 resolves issue #224 https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/commit/66f5070e86733924ae5356b218ef98fa75552848 Merge pull request #291 from cooktheryan/scale-up-common resolves issue #224 |
Forward of an old unfixed bug report to bugzilla There are two problems with the tmpwatch cron job 1) I doesn't go through all the catman directories 2) I doesn't remove formatted man pages created by root For #1, the command line is missing a few directories As for #2, a preformatted man page will be saved like this: l /var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz -r--rw-r-- 1 root man 5056 jui 27 04:36 ls.1.gz tmpwatch by default doesn't erase files that are not writable by root The tmpwatch cron job should look like this: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp /var/tmp /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240 /var/catman/{X11R6/cat?,cat?,local/cat?} (The reason for splitting the line in two is that for security reasons, we avoid to run tmpwatch -f on /tmp) Not that I really hope that you're going to change this, but it'd be really nice to run tmpwatch on /tmp only, not /var/tmp where sysadmins tend to store stuff and very few applications write to anyway. I believe this is what Slowlaris does