up2date & /var/tmp

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:43 -0600, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote:
> Ocasionally, files show up in /var/tmp with names like rpm-tmp.60427.  I
> assume that is is the result of running up2date.  Does anyone know why
> they get created? Also, why they do not get removed? The contents below
> a example from a Redhat ES 3 box.
> 
> if [ $1 = 0 ] ; then
>     if grep '^/usr/lib/mysql$' /etc/ld.so.conf > /dev/null 2>&1
>     then
>         grep -v '^/usr/lib/mysql$' /etc/ld.so.conf \
>             > /etc/ld.so.conf.$$ 2> /dev/null
>         mv /etc/ld.so.conf.$$ /etc/ld.so.conf
>     fi
>     /sbin/ldconfig /usr/lib/mysql
> fi

They should be cleaned up by the "%post" part of the RPM update.  If
they're not (and the above one seems to come from the MySQL update),
bugzilla it so Red Hat fixes their post install scripts.

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