Bug 47784 - man problem after an update
Summary: man problem after an update
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tmpwatch
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 48326 48468 48742 48862 48934 53327 54566 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-07 15:47 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-09-06 19:24:44 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
A version of /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch that actually works. (258 bytes, text/plain)
2001-07-11 15:24 UTC, Henning Schmiedehausen 		no flags Details
A version of /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch that actually works. (258 bytes, patch)
2001-07-11 15:24 UTC, Henning Schmiedehausen 		no flags Details | Diff
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2001:104 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE New tmpwatch package fixes cron warning 2001-08-28 04:00:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2001:072 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE : Updated man package fixing GID security problems. 2001-05-28 04:00:00 UTC

Description Need Real Name 2001-07-07 15:47:46 UTC 
After man update to man-1.5i2-0.7x
I started getting the following errors in mail from crond:


/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:

error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file
or directory
Comment 1 Christian Rose 2001-07-09 04:36:42 UTC 
Confirmed. I also have two Red Hat Linux 7.0 systems with the man update applied
that gives this error in cron mail.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-07-09 04:53:17 UTC 
Very good it was fixed.
Without this a race often caused sysklogd killed
(when second -HUP gets delivered during first -HUP processing)
This often happened with slow computers.

To model such problem just do

while true ; do killall -HUP sysklogd ;  done

the sysklogd will get killed.
Same thing did multiple -HUP from log rotation.
Hopefully it will be fixed from now on in sysklogd.

Also, check the other daemons for this type of problem.
It is very annoying - server just dies one every one or two months.
I found few (apache, exim, syslog)
which now seems fixed. Check the other daemons to make sure 
no multiple -HUP used for restarting.
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-07-09 04:54:36 UTC 
I posted a comment to a wrong bug 
It supposed top go to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39423
Please ignore my previous comment
Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2001-07-09 19:28:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44117 ***
Comment 5 Christian Rose 2001-07-09 20:23:38 UTC 
This report is about the RHL 7.0 errata and is not yet resolved (updated
tmpwatch is not available as errata).

The solution might be similar to the one in bug 44177, though.
Comment 6 Christian Rose 2001-07-09 20:25:19 UTC 
Changing component to tmpwatch.
Comment 7 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-10 16:14:03 UTC 
*** Bug 48326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-11 10:00:39 UTC 
*** Bug 48468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Henning Schmiedehausen 2001-07-11 15:24:31 UTC 
Created attachment 23309 [details]
A version of /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch that actually works.
Comment 10 Henning Schmiedehausen 2001-07-11 15:24:35 UTC 
Created attachment 23310 [details]
A version of /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch that actually works.
Comment 11 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-12 14:36:17 UTC 
*** Bug 48862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Rex Dieter 2001-07-13 16:57:23 UTC 
*** Bug 48934 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2001-07-16 03:34:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44117 ***
Comment 14 Christian Rose 2001-07-16 21:17:29 UTC 
The Rawhide issue is resolved, this one is not (there's no errata available).
Marking it as duplicate is thus unfortunate
Comment 15 Preston Brown 2001-08-06 16:14:12 UTC 
*** Bug 48742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Preston Brown 2001-09-06 19:24:40 UTC 
*** Bug 53327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Preston Brown 2001-11-06 17:17:27 UTC 
*** Bug 54566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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