error: failed to lstat /tmp/.302.2fa859:

ferdog · 07-18-2003, 08:24 AM

I am running Red Hat 9 and am getting a message in root's mail every morning at 4 that says:

"/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:

error: failed to lstat /tmp/.302.2fa859: No such file or directory
"

I really have no clue what this means or how to fix it. I have searched google but can't find anything that seems related to my problem.

Can anyone help me?

MasterC · 07-18-2003, 08:29 AM

Can you post up the contents of:
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
To view it so you can post it use less in a console (you might need to be root):
less /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

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ferdog · 07-18-2003, 08:41 AM

[root@localhost root]# less /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
if [ -d "$d" ]; then
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 720 $d
fi
done

MasterC · 07-18-2003, 08:45 AM

Might this help:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2001-104.html

However it doesn't list your version (rh 9) so you might look at contacting them about this (or finding an update?).

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ferdog · 07-18-2003, 08:54 AM

Thanks, MasterC.

I checked up2date, but that didn't come up with any updates available. I think what I might do is copy /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch from a working RH9 machine to this one. Do you think that will solve the problem?

MasterC · 07-18-2003, 08:57 AM

I don't know, which version is that one running?

Also, it looks like that bug should have been fixed, that is odd that it's giving you problems (unless of course you aren't running rh9 on that box).

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ferdog · 07-18-2003, 09:08 AM

The machine that is having the problem is Red Hat 9. I have another computer that I could install Red Hat 9 on and then copy the working /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch from that second machine to the one that isn't working. I don't know if that would cause any kind of problems but I guess it is worth a try, right?

MasterC · 07-18-2003, 09:14 AM

Sure!

As a side not though, you still might consider submitting as a bug since it's shown it's face before.

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