Chapter 1. Package Updates
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ppc64-utils is a collection of utilities for Linux running on 64-bit PowerPC platforms.
These updated ppc64-utils packages add the following enhancement:
• previously, the ofpathname script was not able to translate logical device names to Open Firmware
device path names for virtual Fibre Channel devices. With these updated packages, ofpathname
now supports virtual Fibre Channel devices. For more information on ofpathname, refer to the
ofpathname(8) manual page. (
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Users of ppc64-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.
1.180. psmisc
1.180.1. RHBA-2009:0439: bug fix update
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An updated psmisc package that fixes a bug is now available.
The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall, and
fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system.
The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified
by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or file
systems.
This updated psmisc package fixes the following bug:
• calling the command "fuser -m <device>" failed to detect open files on a file system that had been
lazily unmounted (by calling "umount -l <device>", for example). The fuser utility detects open files
on lazily-unmounted file systems with this updated package.
All users of psmisc are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.
1.181. pykickstart
1.181.1. RHBA-2009:1387: bug fix update
An updated pykickstart package that fixes two bugs is now available.
The pykickstart package is a python library used to manipulate kickstart files.
This updated package addresses the following bugs:
• pykickstart ignored special characters when parsing arguments, and therefore omitted them when
passing the arguments to the authconfig method. This meant that the system would not kickstart as
specified. pykickstart now handles special characters, so arguments are passed as intended. Any
further issues will be due to incorrect syntax. (
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