From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) Description of problem: mktemp templates must have 6 X's but the manual page states only that the template should contain "some number of X's". How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man mktemp 2. mktemp tmpXXXX 3. mktemp tmpXXXXXX Actual Results: bash-2.04$ mktemp tmpXXXX Cannot create temp file tmpXXXX bash-2.04$ mktemp tmpXXXXXX tmpRAk56L Additional info:
it's fixed in mktemp-1.5-11