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Bug 109005 - logwatch creates bogus tmpdirs at /
Summary: logwatch creates bogus tmpdirs at /
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: logwatch
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks: EasyFix-Tracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-04 07:23 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:59 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-20 19:44:23 UTC
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patch to fix the issue; also reported upstream (without response) (deleted)
2003-11-04 07:24 UTC, Pekka Savola 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Pekka Savola 2003-11-04 07:23:44 UTC 
Logwatch 4.3.1 creates bogus directories in /, like tmplogwatch.1460.
Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2003-11-04 07:24:55 UTC 
Created attachment 95702 [details]
patch to fix the issue; also reported upstream (without response)
Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2003-12-17 19:29:28 UTC 
FWIW, a similar fix has been merged about 6 weeks ago and appears to 
be present in logwatch 5.0:

http://www2.cvs.logwatch.org:81/index.cgi/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
.diff?r1=1.95&r2=1.96
Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2004-08-20 19:44:23 UTC 
Cool, a patch is upstream, assuming this is fixed.
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