sos enhancement update

Advisory:	RHBA-2008:0632-3
Type:	Bug Fix Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2008-07-31
Last updated on:	2008-07-31
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4.5.z) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4.5.z)

Details

An updated sos package that adds an enhancement is now available.

SOS is a set of tools that gather information about a system's hardware
and current configuration. This information can then be used for diagnostic
purposes and debugging.

The sosreport utility in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 did not feature
support for creating a tar archive of the data gathered by the "lvmdump"
script, which comes installed with the lvm2 package. This updated sos
package adds support for gathering "lvmdump" data.

Users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds
this enhancement.

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 AS (v. 4.5.z)

SRPMS:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.src.rpm	`MD5: 50afc468f7a589efbf59876d9ae90745`

IA-32:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

IA-64:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

PPC:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

s390:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

s390x:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

x86_64:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4.5.z)

SRPMS:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.src.rpm	`MD5: 50afc468f7a589efbf59876d9ae90745`

IA-32:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

IA-64:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

x86_64:
sos-1.7-6.1.el4_5.2.noarch.rpm	`MD5: db910bfa900b2b392152e22a1bc39496`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

450860 - RHEL4 sosreport has no support for lvmdump

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