Bug Fix Advisory net-tools bug fix and enhancement update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0691-3
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated net-tools package that fixes various bugs and adds an
enhancement is now available.

The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig,
netstat, and route.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

* the "ifconfig" command trimmed network interface names if they were
longer than 9 characters. In this updated package, network interface
names longer than 9 characters are displayed correctly.

* the init script for the netplug daemon, netplugd, returned incorrect
error codes, causing the "status" command to return an incorrect status. In
this updated package, the netplugd init script is Linux Standard Base (LSB)
compliant, which resolves this issue.

As well, the netstat man page has been updated to describe the statistics
output from the "netstat -s" command.

Users of net-tools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues and 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 Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.src.rpm     9f7461898f47c5d836c8a241cecf71f8
 
IA-32:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.i386.rpm     ffb73149e2b51c3b28f4ca9c6935b129
 
x86_64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.x86_64.rpm     74e6ca21f1d1c3d68ccbad39d9e2664f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.src.rpm     9f7461898f47c5d836c8a241cecf71f8
 
IA-32:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.i386.rpm     ffb73149e2b51c3b28f4ca9c6935b129
 
IA-64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.ia64.rpm     4f76d47c13a015c491c49874537de4f5
 
PPC:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.ppc.rpm     35ee0221a7a2143ce603e4d6a86e2b92
 
s390:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.s390.rpm     4f365258f45adc85b0f531106fdbd94d
 
s390x:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.s390x.rpm     2d5987fdc573a9eb2eee79c34e36dc04
 
x86_64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.x86_64.rpm     74e6ca21f1d1c3d68ccbad39d9e2664f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.src.rpm     9f7461898f47c5d836c8a241cecf71f8
 
IA-32:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.i386.rpm     ffb73149e2b51c3b28f4ca9c6935b129
 
IA-64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.ia64.rpm     4f76d47c13a015c491c49874537de4f5
 
x86_64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.x86_64.rpm     74e6ca21f1d1c3d68ccbad39d9e2664f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.src.rpm     9f7461898f47c5d836c8a241cecf71f8
 
IA-32:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.i386.rpm     ffb73149e2b51c3b28f4ca9c6935b129
 
IA-64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.ia64.rpm     4f76d47c13a015c491c49874537de4f5
 
x86_64:
net-tools-1.60-39.el4.x86_64.rpm     74e6ca21f1d1c3d68ccbad39d9e2664f
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

206917 - ifconfig does not show the full interface name
242918 - Wrong init script


Keywords

ifconfig, net-tools, netstat


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