Bug 53327
| Summary: | spurius mail to root when /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? missing | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bowe Strickland <bowe> |
| Component: | tmpwatch | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-09-06 19:10:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: Because glob in /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch misses, bash passes ? into tmpwatch, and tmpwatch generates error message for nonexistant /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat\?. received one/day in root's mail: >> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:20:31 -0400 >> From: root <root> >> To: root.com >> Subject: tmpwatch error >> >> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch: >> >> error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file or directory suggested fix: [ -d /var/cache/man/X11R6 ] && ... (or something like) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date updated man rpm to man-1.5i2-0.7x, removing directories and causing problems 2. 3. Actual Results: /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch began generating spurius mail Additional info: