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Bug 48742

Summary: tmpwatch error
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Justin Albstmeijer <justin>
Component: tmpwatchAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
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Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch (fixed) none

Description Justin Albstmeijer 2001-07-11 10:53:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I get "error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No
such file or directory" when running /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch.
This problem stated after upgrading to man-1.5i2-0.7x

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh man-1.5i2-0.7x.i386.rpm
2. /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

	

Actual Results:  error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat?
failed: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  No error

Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-07-19 14:52:44 UTC 
Created attachment 24127 [details]
Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-07-19 15:05:47 UTC 
Created attachment 24130 [details]
Replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch (fixed)
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-07-19 15:06:23 UTC 
The problem is caused by an attempt to use the ? wildcard to match 
directories that don't exist.  (When this happens, the question mark is left 
in the parameter unchanged.)  In this case, the check for the existence of /
var/cache/man is insufficient (on my machine, that directory only contains 
the whatis file).

The second attachment is a replacement /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch.  It 
solves the problem by filtering out the entries that contain a ?.
The attachment prior to that is a buggy, older version.  Whoops, sorry. ^_^;
Comment 4 Preston Brown 2001-08-06 16:14:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47784 ***