- Issued:
- 2009-05-18
- Updated:
- 2009-05-18
RHBA-2008:0989 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
tmpwatch bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated tmpwatch package that fixes various bugs is now available.
Description
The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and
removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time.
tmpwatch is typically enabled and configured to clean up directories used
for temporarily holding files, such as, for example, the /tmp directory.
This updated tmpwatch package includes fixes for the following bugs:
- tmpwatch unnecessarily reported a "No such file or directory" error
whenever a file was deleted before tmpwatch accessed it. In this updated
package, tmpwatch correctly no longer reports such errors, thus resolving
the issue.
- given a situation in which a directory being watched by tmpwatch was
mounted on its own partition (such as /tmp on a separate partition), and
given also that quotas were enabled on that file system, then the
"aquota.user" and "aquota.group" files could become "stale" due to a lack
of recent modifications, which would lead to tmpwatch deleting them. In
this updated package, tmpwatch knows not to delete either of these files
when the directory it is watching is located on the root directory of a
partition, thus resolving this potential issue.
All users of tmpwatch are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 206258 - tmpwatch should not delete aquota.user and aquota.group
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: f9a2846b3f4c10f89d3761fe986fc9d37d3bf0c75d279085248716953e9c278f |
x86_64 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6e19e8eba7ce31f3f35ea1a0822fa4e46828130623ebf5a7e26286042b0c5b76 |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6e19e8eba7ce31f3f35ea1a0822fa4e46828130623ebf5a7e26286042b0c5b76 |
ia64 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: b977937b010906611c27dda56c0c26fb5147bc7a5bd79059419700c308bd8bf2 |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: b977937b010906611c27dda56c0c26fb5147bc7a5bd79059419700c308bd8bf2 |
i386 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a6d8ff03301c9b13361ae9723c75e0cda74dc7d0a51b61f4c299bb89471a00c3 |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a6d8ff03301c9b13361ae9723c75e0cda74dc7d0a51b61f4c299bb89471a00c3 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: f9a2846b3f4c10f89d3761fe986fc9d37d3bf0c75d279085248716953e9c278f |
x86_64 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6e19e8eba7ce31f3f35ea1a0822fa4e46828130623ebf5a7e26286042b0c5b76 |
ia64 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: b977937b010906611c27dda56c0c26fb5147bc7a5bd79059419700c308bd8bf2 |
i386 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a6d8ff03301c9b13361ae9723c75e0cda74dc7d0a51b61f4c299bb89471a00c3 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: f9a2846b3f4c10f89d3761fe986fc9d37d3bf0c75d279085248716953e9c278f |
x86_64 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6e19e8eba7ce31f3f35ea1a0822fa4e46828130623ebf5a7e26286042b0c5b76 |
i386 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: a6d8ff03301c9b13361ae9723c75e0cda74dc7d0a51b61f4c299bb89471a00c3 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: f9a2846b3f4c10f89d3761fe986fc9d37d3bf0c75d279085248716953e9c278f |
s390x | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 0f7917f0a8f73ab919f9e5a7efce4aa649fa1430c0acca2f9911c54bfb9e0c69 |
s390 | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 339dcaddf00dba91ffa34ae4cb3a05bfa245a9296b40f0684f962fbfe8d27b40 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: f9a2846b3f4c10f89d3761fe986fc9d37d3bf0c75d279085248716953e9c278f |
ppc | |
tmpwatch-2.9.1-1.el4.1.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 2a8c4a1ef4030b97a9fc6a29a8fac408b177969e8dc2a9ca4c41903e1309d218 |
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