Bug 45212 - safedelchk doesn't actually delete the safedeleted files
Summary: safedelchk doesn't actually delete the safedeleted files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Classification: Retired
Component: safedelete
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bero
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-20 21:41 UTC by Jeffrey Wacaser
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-01-17 15:24:53 UTC
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Description Jeffrey Wacaser 2001-06-20 21:41:10 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-7.0.1 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Gecko/20010607

Description of problem:
I believe the safedelchk program is getting confused on the date.  I can
safedelete and undelete files fine.  When I run the safedelchk program to
purge old files, it puts says deleting files older than 6/20/ without
giving the year.  It then states that 0 files were purged even though I
have files older than my $SAFEDAYS defined variabled which I have tried
changing.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1../safedelchk
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  sjwacaser@mosh> safedelchk
safedelchk: scan beginning
safedelchk: removing files safedeleted before 06/20/
safedelchk: 0 file(s) removed
safedelchk: scan completed
jwacaser@mosh> 
jwacaser@mosh> undelete -i | more

/home/jwacaser/Employee%20Communication%20-%20Option%20Program%20Intro.doc
	Date deleted: 06/19/01
	Permissions: -rw-r--r--
	Owners login name: jwacaser
	Owners group name: jwacaser
	Size: 55296
	Last accessed: 06/19/01
	Last modified: 06/19/01

/home/jwacaser/ISE tech interview eval.doc
	Date deleted: 06/12/01
	Permissions: -rw-rw-r--
	Owners login name: jwacaser
	Owners group name: jwacaser
	Size: 68608
	Last accessed: 06/12/01
	Last modified: 06/12/01

Expected Results:  sjwacaser@mosh> safedelchk
safedelchk: scan beginning
safedelchk: removing files safedeleted before 06/20/01
safedelchk: 200 file(s) removed
safedelchk: scan completed
jwacaser@mosh> 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-18 17:13:53 UTC
Since powertools has been discontinued, the official fix is the removal of the
package from current products (sorry).



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