Red Hat 6.0

[Richard <nospam [at] zen.co.uk>]

The following should help users of Red Hat 6.0..........

Date forwarded: 10 Jun 1999 16:24:37 -0000
Date sent: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:13:30 -0400
From: Jeff Johnson <jbj [at] redhat.com>
To: redhat-watch-list [at] redhat.com
Subject: utempter [at] redhat.com
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Several programs on Red Hat 6.0 may not stop running when a user logs
out due to a problem handling signals. The affected programs are
xterm, rxvt, and screen. The cause of the problem is actually in an
auxiliary package called utempter that helps to keep track of which
users are currently logged in. The cause of the problem was that the
signal SIGCHLD that is delivered when a program completes was not
ignore, resulting in the wrong signal handler reaping the child
status. A more complete description of the failure symptoms may be
found at http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla under bug #2767.

Users of Red Hat Linux 6.x should upgrade to a new version of
utempter in order to fix this problem.

Red Hat Linux 6.x:
------------------
On alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha/utempter-0.5-2.alpha.rpm
On
i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/utempter-0.5-2.i386.rpm
On sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc/utempter-0.5-2.sparc.rpm
The
source is available at
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS/utempter-0.5-2.src.rpm

These packages have all been PGP signed by Red Hat for security.

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Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ
jbj@redhat.com (jbj@jbj.org)
Chapel Hill, NC

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