Subject: [yellowdog-updates] Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Advisory: YDU-20010725-18
dburcaw@newhope.terraplex.com
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 18:35:06 MDT
Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement
------------------------------------
Package: screen
Issue Date: July 25, 2001
Priority: low
Advisory ID: YDU-20010725-18
1. Topic:
Updated screen packages are available.
2. Problem:
The screen program that shipped with
Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 hung and created
zombie processes.
3. Solution:
a) Updating via yup...
We suggest that you use the Yellow Dog Update Program (yup)
to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will
automatically retrieve and install the fixed version of
this update onto your system:
yup update screen
b) Updating manually...
The update can also be retrieved manually from our ftp site
below along with the rpm command that should be used to install
the update. (Please use a mirror site)
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.0/ppc/RPMS/
rpm -Fvh screen-3.9.5-13a.ppc.rpm
4. Verification
MD5 checksum Package
-------------------------------- ----------------------------
22f86effd6f5268c030c9ff6be0dc56b SRPMS/screen-3.9.5-13a.src.rpm
2ac7df66b0d5f1fc444dc6c1914a99f1 ppc/RPMS/screen-3.9.5-13a.ppc.rpm
If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename
5. Misc.
Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package
enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ for more
information.
For information regarding the usage of yup, the Yellow Dog Update Program, see
http://devel.yellowdoglinux.com/rp_yup.shtml
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Thu Aug 09 2001 - 18:37:30 MDT