Bug 48742
Summary: | tmpwatch error | ||||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Justin Albstmeijer <justin> | ||||||
Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 7.0 | ||||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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Last Closed: | 2001-07-19 15:06:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Description
Justin Albstmeijer
2001-07-11 10:53:23 UTC
Created attachment 24127 [details]
Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
Created attachment 24130 [details]
Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch (fixed)
The problem is caused by an attempt to use the ? wildcard to match directories that don't exist. (When this happens, the question mark is left in the parameter unchanged.) In this case, the check for the existence of / var/cache/man is insufficient (on my machine, that directory only contains the whatis file). The second attachment is a replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch. It solves the problem by filtering out the entries that contain a ?. The attachment prior to that is a buggy, older version. Whoops, sorry. ^_^; |