Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2010:0619 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2011-01-13
Updated:
2011-01-13

RHBA-2010:0619 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

tmpwatch bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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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 usually used to clean up
directories containing temporary files (for example, /tmp).

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

  • tmpwatch automatically deletes temporary directories, which previously broke

some Java management functionality. With this update, this issue has been
resolved and the newly added option --exclude-pattern is now used to preserve
these directories. (BZ#527425)

  • previously, tmpwatch called fuser (1) incorrectly, which lead to unexpected

error messages when encountering a file name starting with '-' character. This
issue has now been resolved and tmpwatch now calls fuser (1) correctly even for
file names starting with the '-' character. (BZ#548932)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated tmpwatch package, which resolves
this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the 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 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 527425 - /tmp/hsperfdata_${user}/${PID} is deleted by tmpwatch
  • BZ - 548932 - tmpwatch -s doesnt terminate fuser argument list

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
x86_64
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e7fcd4749caa6343f4a8b57c2a00c7fdafc1ff94f342c4ab80a381cb9edbed3
ia64
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.ia64.rpm SHA-256: a9309e8d4b6085b8369a49d70dfd56118b92afc9d074942a4db376f2412d055d
i386
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 10b0b92d4066ca1693ee3341d40c10f09305c1f0e889c1675eee711ad8fd19ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
x86_64
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e7fcd4749caa6343f4a8b57c2a00c7fdafc1ff94f342c4ab80a381cb9edbed3
i386
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 10b0b92d4066ca1693ee3341d40c10f09305c1f0e889c1675eee711ad8fd19ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
x86_64
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e7fcd4749caa6343f4a8b57c2a00c7fdafc1ff94f342c4ab80a381cb9edbed3
i386
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 10b0b92d4066ca1693ee3341d40c10f09305c1f0e889c1675eee711ad8fd19ec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
s390x
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.s390x.rpm SHA-256: a7cbb6579b8655f3167bc91a66807630561ef73791dd2379e8ac0d8dcfb55d3b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
ppc
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.ppc.rpm SHA-256: b6383190438e1517c9b55869feb7470aa21f456617c4143a021f42e31960e149

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.src.rpm SHA-256: 7f849ed1f60ffa1bd642f393af0091b7f8dfa04754f0d1b91f77582d6f3d7851
x86_64
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6e7fcd4749caa6343f4a8b57c2a00c7fdafc1ff94f342c4ab80a381cb9edbed3
i386
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.5.i386.rpm SHA-256: 10b0b92d4066ca1693ee3341d40c10f09305c1f0e889c1675eee711ad8fd19ec

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