Subject: [yellowdog-updates] Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Update: YDU-20020127-12
dburcaw@newhope.terraplex.com
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 19:23:22 MST
Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement
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Package: tmpwatch
Issue Date: January 27, 2002
Priority: low
Advisory ID: YDU-20020127-12
1. Topic:
The tmpwatch package cleans up certain directories on a nightly
basis. This update provides a new cron script for tmpwatch that
that verifies the existence of cache directories before cleaning
is attempted.
2. Problem
tmpwatch is a program that runs nightly, and cleans up old temporary
files that are older than a certain date. tmpwatch cleans up
cached man pages stored in directories under /var. Under
certain conditions, cron, the Linux periodic job scheduler,
will report errors from the tmpwatch service on a nightly basis
The messages are similar to the following:
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:
error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such
file or directory
Note that these messages do not affect the tmpwatch service.
The new tmpwatch will check for the existence of the manual page cache
directories before attempting to clean them, stopping the messages from
the cron service.
In addition, the new tmpwatch adds some new functionality and fixes a few
minor bugs present in previous releases. See the RPM changelog for
details.
3. Solution:
a) Updating via yup...
We suggest that you use the Yellow Dog Update Program (yup)
to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will
automatically retrieve and install the fixed version of
this update onto your system:
yup update tmpwatch
b) Updating manually...
The update can also be retrieved manually from our ftp site
below along with the rpm command that should be used to install
the update. (Please use a mirror site)
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.1/ppc/
rpm -Fvh tmpwatch-2.8.1-1.ppc.rpm
4. Verification
MD5 checksum Package
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2907c06cd0c322989aef762be3deb0c6 ppc/tmpwatch-2.8.1-1.ppc.rpm
8537f9024f24cfe67184e3de7e43bd53 SRPMS/tmpwatch-2.8.1-1.src.rpm
If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename
5. Misc.
Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package
enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ for more
information.
For information regarding the usage of yup, the Yellow Dog Update Program, see
http://http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yup.shtml
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