[tmpwatch 0005266]: tmpwatch is attempting to remove non-empty directories

Fri Feb 12 16:05:51 CET 2016

A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5266 
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Reported By:                vchepkov
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    tmpwatch
Issue ID:                   5266
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2016-02-12 15:53 CET
Last Modified:              2016-02-12 16:05 CET
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Summary:                    tmpwatch is attempting to remove non-empty
directories
Description: 
if files are being modified in a directory, but directory itself is not,
tmpwatch is trying to remove non-empty directory, for example:

tmpwatch  -m 7d /devl/data/test_delivery/

produced the following output:

error: failed to rmdir /devl/data/test_delivery/dtd: File exists

bash $ ls -altr /devl/data/test_delivery/dtd
total 712
drwxrwxr-x   2 xxxxxx   xxx         4096 Feb  2 14:23 ./
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx        35316 Feb  5 11:48 chars.sgm
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx         8902 Feb  5 11:48 obsolete.sgm
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx          398 Feb  5 11:48 pdm-mod.catalog
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx         3078 Feb  5 11:48 pdm-mod.decl
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx         1276 Feb  5 11:48 pdm-mod.dtd
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxxxx   xxx       275556 Feb  5 11:48 pdm-mod.sgm
drwxrwxr-x   9 xxxxxx   xxx        12288 Feb 10 10:52 ../

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 (0011086) vchepkov (reporter) - 2016-02-12 16:05
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5266#c11086 
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forgot to mention. tmpwatch on Linux doesn't act this way
# pkginfo -l CSWtmpwatch
   PKGINST:  CSWtmpwatch
      NAME:  tmpwatch - Removes files which haven't been accessed for a
period of time
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  2.10.1,REV=2014.04.11
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  https://fedorahosted.org/tmpwatch/ packaged for CSW by Maciej
Blizinski
    PSTAMP:  maciej at unstable9s-20140411012129
  INSTDATE:  Jun 17 2015 16:47
   HOTLINE:  http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/
     EMAIL:  maciej at opencsw.org
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:        6 installed pathnames
                   1 shared pathnames
                   2 directories
                   2 executables
                 118 blocks used (approx)