Forward of an old unfixed bug report to bugzilla There are two problems with the tmpwatch cron job 1) I doesn't go through all the catman directories 2) I doesn't remove formatted man pages created by root For #1, the command line is missing a few directories As for #2, a preformatted man page will be saved like this: l /var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz -r--rw-r-- 1 root man 5056 jui 27 04:36 ls.1.gz tmpwatch by default doesn't erase files that are not writable by root The tmpwatch cron job should look like this: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp /var/tmp /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240 /var/catman/{X11R6/cat?,cat?,local/cat?} (The reason for splitting the line in two is that for security reasons, we avoid to run tmpwatch -f on /tmp) Not that I really hope that you're going to change this, but it'd be really nice to run tmpwatch on /tmp only, not /var/tmp where sysadmins tend to store stuff and very few applications write to anyway. I believe this is what Slowlaris does
fixed in rawhide.
This was fixed in RH 5.9 but RH 6.0 switched back to having just: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp /var/tmp /var/catman/cat? Is this intentional?
No just a screwup. I've fixed this again in our repository, and build tmpwatch-1.7-2.
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/commit/ba79789cd82ca64f9dfddaae7498f1c681b221c0 resolves issue #224 https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/commit/66f5070e86733924ae5356b218ef98fa75552848 Merge pull request #291 from cooktheryan/scale-up-common resolves issue #224