| Summary: | tmpwatch is noisy on fuse mount points, error: failed to lstat /tmp/a: Permission denied | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Steve Traylen <steve.traylen> |
| Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Miloslav Trmač <mitr> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | pkovar, pvrabec |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | tmpwatch-2.9.16-4.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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When searching for files or directories to remove, tmpwatch was reporting all failures to access these files or directories. This included expected access failures due to the restrictive default configuration of FUSE mount points. With this update, tmpwatch now silently ignores all EACCES errors, and the expected access failures regarding FUSE mount points are no longer reported.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-08-24 07:58:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Missed out a word in last but one paragraph: In this case of a mountpoint in /tmp it probably makes sense for tmpwatch to not do anything with the moutpoint and skip over it. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. Thanks for your report. If you are a Red Hat customer with an active subscription, please contact Red Hat support through the Red Hat Customer Portal at http://access.redhat.com/ to allow correct prioritization of this issue. (In reply to comment #2) > In this case of a mountpoint in /tmp it probably makes sense for tmpwatch > to not do anything with the moutpoint and skip over it. tmpwatch does skip all mountpoints, but it needs to perform the lstat() operation to detect them. However, the error message can and should be silenced.
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When searching for files or directories to remove, tmpwatch was reporting all failures to access these files or directories. This included expected access failures due to the restrictive default configuration of FUSE mount points. With this update, tmpwatch now silently ignores all EACCES errors, and the expected access failures regarding FUSE mount points are no longer reported.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1199.html |
Description of problem: When users mount fuse file systems in /tmp tmpwatch prints out this message which is then mailed routinly to the sysadmin. error: failed to lstat /tmp/a: Permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tmpwatch-2.9.16-3.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login as a not root user. 2. mkdir /tmp/a 3. Mount some random ssh server sshfs host.example.org:. /tmp/a 4. Run tmpwatch as cron does: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 10d /tmp Actual results: error: failed to lstat /tmp/a: Permission denied though the return code is 0. Expected results: No output Additional info: In this case of mountpoint in /tmp it probably makes no sense for tmpwatch to do anything with it. The mount point occupies no space and so I think tmpwatch should just skip over it.