Bug Fix Advisory ypserv bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0631-6
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-08-27
Last updated on: 2008-08-27
Affected Products: RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated ypserv package that fixes various bugs is now available.

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides network
information (login names, passwords, home directories, and group
information) to all machines on a network. NIS allows users to log in on
any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client
programs running, and the user's password is recorded in the NIS password
database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

* in the previous ypserv package, ypserv logged a lot of common errors
that are safe to ignore. In this updated package, the verbosity of ypserv
logs has been decreased for certain common errors.

* some binaries -- mainly ypserv -- were stripped of debugging symbols,
even though a debuginfo package was available. In these cases, no debugging
symbols were available when using gdb.

* in the previous ypserv package, "/var/yp/Makefile" did not fail when the
NIS/YP domain name was set to "none". This was seen by running the "make -C
/var/yp" command. Now, for these situations, the "make -C /var/yp" command
fails, and an error occurs.

Users of ypserv are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.


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

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.src.rpm     bbe069463b0c0ce885a2bebdea688937
 
IA-32:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.i386.rpm     117831aca0696dafa5162726777d0f41
 
x86_64:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.x86_64.rpm     2a64a83b4128454ddc3b8454d68dfd1e
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.src.rpm     bbe069463b0c0ce885a2bebdea688937
 
IA-32:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.i386.rpm     117831aca0696dafa5162726777d0f41
 
IA-64:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.ia64.rpm     2570133b5809b0dec14b31c12393a772
 
PPC:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.ppc.rpm     cf9517ad2b42e11d5a74af69fdb70adc
 
s390x:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.s390x.rpm     aef083d8230379a6ec17b0891288751d
 
x86_64:
ypserv-2.19-5.el5.x86_64.rpm     2a64a83b4128454ddc3b8454d68dfd1e
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

428003 - Don't strip binaries in debuginfo
457221 - /var/yp/Makefile should fail with "(none)" yp domain



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