Hello,
Thus far the tests have been positive, but several people have asked me
one question.
Do you have to reboot your machine for this update to take effect?
I *believe* the answer is "You don't have to reboot your machine for
this update to take effect, but it is a good practice."
The postinstall script that get's run (glibc_post_upgrade.<arch>) is a
binary, so I can't tell exactly what it does. I know that at a minimum
is restarts init. So at the very least, every process started after the
update is affected.
It might do more than that, and it probably does. But I don't know that
for a fact.
Thanks
Troy
Troy J Dawson wrote:
Hello,
Due to the high demand for this glibc update, we are putting it into our
general testing area so that people can install it as soon as possible.
Although this glibc hasn't gone through our full testing procedure, it
has gone through preliminary testing, and we expect it to pass all of
our testing.
This glibc update fixes CVE-2010-3847
We plan on pushing this out on tomorrow - 21 October 2010
To test or update
SL5
-------
yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update glibc\*
or you can download rpm's by hand at
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/glibc/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/glibc/
Thanks
Troy Dawson
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