Greets list;

A heads up on what looks to be a major problem in that the last 
update/security fix to glibc seems to have somehow killed amanda, 
as follows.

I installed this latest glibc-2.2.5-40 set of packages about an hour 
after they showed up on updates.redhat.com.  It was late enough 
that when I did the install, amanda had already started.

The next morning (Oct 4) all I had in my amdump report were RESULTS 
MISSING messages for all 37 entries in the disklist.  I blamed that 
in the fact that I had probably changed something in the middle of 
the run that fubared amanda.

This was repeated this morning also.  So I re-installed the 
glibc-2.2.5-39 package set, rebooted twice since setiathome didn't 
restart the first time, and I've got a shell open as amanda running 
a fresh amdump to see if it will now work.

For me and this machine, reverting isn't a *serious* problem as I've 
a good firewall between this machine and the net.  But for those 
who are tryng to backup a machine thats also your firewall, this 
could be a problem.

I will post a fail/success report when I know if this single 
reversion fixes the problem.  And then if it does, I'll re-install 
2.2.5-40, and rebuild/re-install 2.4.3b4-20020930 amanda to see if 
that fixes it.  This is the first time I've seen a security fix 
break amanda if indeed this is the case.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly

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