Bug Fix Advisory psmisc bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2007:1009-3
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-05-21
Last updated on: 2008-05-21
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated psmisc packages that fix a bug are now available.

The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your
system: pstree, killall, and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree
structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall
command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to
processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of
processes that are using specified files or file systems.

In previous psmisc packages, running the "tmpwatch -s" or "tmpwatch
--fuser" commands caused the fuser utility to always return a non-zero
(failure) exit code. Cleaning the /tmp directory resulted in open files
such as the GDM socket, X sockets, and the font server socket to be
deleted. The fuser utility returns the correct exit code in these updated
packages.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this
issue.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
psmisc-22.2-6.src.rpm     89b1a5d166ee20ece086dc73500df645
 
IA-32:
psmisc-22.2-6.i386.rpm     98081e28b97d3e81570db42fff07a04e
 
IA-64:
psmisc-22.2-6.ia64.rpm     ce42fdb6cf9e582413d36db3dec1690a
 
PPC:
psmisc-22.2-6.ppc.rpm     c869f59dfb4694ad58d291df65907c1b
 
s390x:
psmisc-22.2-6.s390x.rpm     1146afb8de17d323d2de45e6827530c7
 
x86_64:
psmisc-22.2-6.x86_64.rpm     f060230f023d3d708c176cc1333469d4
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
psmisc-22.2-6.src.rpm     89b1a5d166ee20ece086dc73500df645
 
IA-32:
psmisc-22.2-6.i386.rpm     98081e28b97d3e81570db42fff07a04e
 
x86_64:
psmisc-22.2-6.x86_64.rpm     f060230f023d3d708c176cc1333469d4
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

243615 - tmpwatch doesn't honor --fuser


Keywords

fuser, psmisc


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