There is a problem in fileutils, which affects namely scripts. Scripts often run from some daemons, with closed standard output. However, fileutils contains buggy code in lib/closeout.c, which causes programs from fileutils to fail in the case of closed stdout. Try to run the following on Red Hat 7.0 (under bash): /bin/rm -f /some/file >&- The result is an error condition (write error: bad file descriptor), and removal of /some/file fails. I have written a simple patch and a new spec-file, which are available at http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/fileutils/. The patch simply checks for errno value after fclose() and handles EBADF value as if there was no error at all. This bug can affect many shell scripts, and it is hard to detect..
This is fixed in 4.0.27-1 (rawhide).