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Description of problem:
If a temporary file is deleted before tmpwatch has a chance to lstat it it prints the following error:
error: failed to lstat /tmp/some-file: No such file or directory

These errors end up in emails from the cron daemon.

This error should be silently ignored.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tmpwatch-2.8.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
mkdir /tmp/asdf
cd /tmp/asdf
while true ; do /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 1 /tmp/asdf ; done &
while true ; do touch file1 ; rm file1 ; done &

(and if needed)
while true ; do touch file2 ; rm file2 ; done &

  

Actual Results:  error: failed to lstat /tmp/asdf/file1: No such file or directory
error: failed to lstat /tmp/asdf/file1: No such file or directory
error: failed to lstat /tmp/asdf/file1: No such file or directory
...


Expected Results:  No output.

Additional info:

Present also in EL3.  Have not checked EL4