From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020328 Description of problem: mktemp apparently requires (and only uses) 6 Xs on the filename to create a temporary file. Nowhere in the man page does it mention this requirement. In fact, the man page implies that 'mktemp fooX' should work if there is no conflict. The man page should mention the requirement, or the binary should be fixed to allow the user to specify fewer Xs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /tmp 2. mkdir aahatvolunteermatch 3. cd aahatvolunteermatch 4. mktemp fooXXX Actual Results: Cannot create temp file fooXXX Expected Results: should have created a temp file named 'fooXXX', where X == some random alphanumeric
then man page in mktemp-1.5-14 is fixed now. thanks