True. We're lucky, our queue is very short! Also, to be honest, I was
mainly thinking of my web servers etc when I ran the updates, as the
list of shellshock vectors is quite expansive, and covers bash released
in 1994 - 2014! I didn't realize until afterwards that modules were
implemented as:
module() { blah; }
export -f module
!
Alan
On 09/29/2014 03:30 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:10:07 AM Alan Orth wrote:
>
>> Other users wouldn't have noticed because we updated all of our
>> infrastructure in one go using ansible[0] last Friday.
> We use xCAT to manage our clusters and whilst we could have done that if we
> had wished it would have caused any jobs queued before the bash upgrade to
> fail when they finally got onto a compute node.
>
> I don't think that would have been a popular move. :-)
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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