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Re: [RHSA-2000:043-02] Updated package for nfs-utils available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr)
Tue Jul 18 22:40:46 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:12:11 -0400
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From: Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?= <teg@REDHAT.COM>
X-To: Andrea Costantino <costan@COMM2000.IT>
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In-Reply-To: Andrea Costantino's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:58:02 +0200"
Andrea Costantino <costan@COMM2000.IT> writes:
> > 2. Relevant releases/architectures:
> >
> > Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Ok, what's doing RH???
> The packages are available only for Zoot edition (6.2).
> They should work even with 6.[01], but it seems that the kernel shipped
> with 6.2 is needed (2.2.14).
All Red Hat Linux 6.x users are supposed to upgrade to 2.2.16 (the
capabilities errata said so), and this is explicitly mentioned in this
errata as well. This fixes a critical security bug. People rolling
their own kernel would update this on their own too, as there is a
critical bug fix in the 2.2.16 kernel
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
Red Hat, Inc.
