Bug 14557 - tmpwatch fails to delete directories or documentation is incorrect
Summary: tmpwatch fails to delete directories or documentation is incorrect
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tmpwatch
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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: 14930 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-24 21:06 UTC by Kevin Way
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-13 19:58:13 UTC
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Description Kevin Way 2000-07-24 21:06:55 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Kevin Way 2000-07-24 21:27:43 UTC 
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 */
Comment 2 Derek Tattersall 2000-08-13 19:58:11 UTC 
*** Bug 14930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Preston Brown 2000-09-11 18:50:15 UTC 
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.
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