Attachment 1458 Details for Bug 3700 – Patch by Gordon Lack

Patch by Gordon Lack

GordonLack'sPatch (text/plain), 880 bytes, created by Marja Van Waes on 2012-01-29 20:07:49 CET

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Same problem at 2011 (so bumped version).
Whether you see it depends on what you actually have in /tmp
In my case I have .X11-tmp and .XIM-tmp.

So the "-x /tmp/.X*-unix" expands to:

  -x /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.XIM-unix

and that second path, attached to no keyword, is taken to be a timespec by the
tmpwatch command.

FIX:

Two parts to this.
1) -x doesn't take patterns *anyway*, -X does that, so /etc/sysconfig/tmpwatch
needs to contain:

TMPWATCH_EXCLUDES="-x /tmp/.ICE-unix -X /tmp/.X*-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix -x
/tmp/.Test-unix"

2) You then have to stop the tmpwatch script in /etc/cron.daily from expanding
this shell pattern (and you can't do that with quoting in a simple setting of
the TMPWATCH_EXCLUDES), so you need to wrap *every* usage of TMPWATCH_EXCLUDES
in "set -f/set +f", e.g.:

set -f
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch $TMPWATCH_OPTIONS $TMPWATCH_EXCLUDES 10d /tmp
set +f

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