Enhancement Advisory sysklogd enhancement and bug fix update

Advisory: RHEA-2008:0418-2
Type: Product Enhancement 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

An enhanced sysklogd package that adds a mechanism to restart the rsyslog
daemon after rotating the system logs and a bug fix is now available.

The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd) that
provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as daemons and
log system messages to different places such as sendmail logs, security
logs, and error logs.

This updated sysklogd package adds an enhancement so that the logrotate
command is now able to restart rsyslog as well as sysklogd.

In addition, this update fixes a bug in which syslogd would not
automatically resume logging to partitions that had run out of space and
then had space made available again.

Users of sysklogd 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 (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.src.rpm     c3d217702ca9c0ca643cca0f8f44580a
 
IA-32:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.i386.rpm     2cb4bcaa494a77a760c783fcaf59f614
 
IA-64:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.ia64.rpm     8c0826c277ec225531cabff326cb78a4
 
PPC:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.ppc.rpm     aca4cc0c319d75a51bb36cf4d9311971
 
s390x:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.s390x.rpm     a612fbca825be899422a5cec083e389d
 
x86_64:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.x86_64.rpm     056011c4c6a99825c718a182a3d60736
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.src.rpm     c3d217702ca9c0ca643cca0f8f44580a
 
IA-32:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.i386.rpm     2cb4bcaa494a77a760c783fcaf59f614
 
x86_64:
sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5.x86_64.rpm     056011c4c6a99825c718a182a3d60736
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

429577 - change sysklogd logrotate script



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