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
--------------------------------  ----------------------------
953e335d6b286ced491a16f33bd05613  ppc/tmpwatch-2.8.1-1a.ppc.rpm
a3c6bdd4c7df901c4f0ae549054ef2e7  SRPMS/tmpwatch-2.8.1-1a.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