Red Hat ENTERPRISE 5.4 RELEASE NOTES, Manual

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Chapter 1. Package Updates
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Enterprise Linux, this approach does not work with updates newer than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.
The Xen plugin now searches for
xen
in
/proc/acpi/dsdt
instead and can therefore identify fully
virtualized guests. (
BZ#460788
1619
)
* The
sos
cluster plugin did not account for situations where the system locale may be set to
something other than US English. On a system with a different locale, the plugin could not start
chkconfig and therefore did not work. The cluster plugin now starts chkconfig with
LC_ALL=C
set, and
works as intended. (
BZ#462824
1620
)
* The
sos
RHN plugin obtained information from
/home/nocpulse/
and
/opt/notifications
.
However, RHN monitoring is now logged in
/var/log/nocpulse/
and
/var/log/
notification/
instead. The plugin continues to search for logs in
/home/nocpulse/
and
/opt/
notifications/
in order to preserve backward compatibility, but now searches for logs in
/var/
log/nocpulse/
and
/var/log/notification/
too. (
BZ#480786
1621
)
* Previously,
sos
imported data from
snack
, but did not use this data. However, in order to support
this import,
sos
required three packages:
snack
,
libnewt
, and
libslang
. By avoiding the import, the
packages are not otherwise required by
sos
, and if they are not required by any other component,
they need not be installed. Avoiding unneccessary packages simplifies support and minimizes the
space required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (
BZ#497840
1622
)
* As part of its report,
sos
lists the packages installed on the system. Previously,
sos
stored these
in the order that they were provided by the
rpm -qa
command. Now,
sos
sorts the packages into
alphabetical order as it compiles its list. Listing the packages alphabetically makes it easier to find
packages visually, and groups some related packages together. (
BZ#498474
1623
)
*
Sos
now includes a batch mode, in which it does not ask any questions during its run. Batch mode is
invoked with the
--batch
option. (
BZ#501842
1624
)
* Previously, the
sos
plugin that collects
postfix
data was simply named
mail.py
. This name was
too generic to be meaningful, and was not consistent with the naming of other plugins. The plugin is
now named
postfix.py
, which better describes what data it collects. (
BZ#464207
1625
)
* Previously,
sos
reports included the contents of
/var/log/httpd
. This could make the reports
very long, sometimes over 300 MB. Because the information contained in
/var/log/httpd
is
relevant to few troubleshooting cases,
sos
no longer obtains it. If necessary, the contents of
/var/
log/httpd
can still be obtained by using the apache
sos
plugin. (
BZ#433040
1626
)
*
Sos
now includes many new plugins to support the collection of data from a wider range of
applications. The new plugins allow
sos
to gather information about:
•
kvm
(
BZ#497206
1627
)
•
Directory Server
(
BZ#461799
1628
)
•
dovecot
(
BZ#464208
1629
)
•
netdump
(
BZ#466819
1630
)
1619
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=460788
1620
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=462824
1621
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=480786
1622
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=497840
1623
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498474
1624
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=501842
1625
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=464207
1626
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=433040