RHBA-2006:0721 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated chkconfig packages that fix a bug when handling symbolic links in
/etc/init.d are now available.

Description

Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel
information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous
symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to relieve system administrators of some of
the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links.

Earlier releases of chkconfig exited immediately with an error when a
dangling symbolic link was encountered in /etc/init.d. This update fixes
chkconfig so it only prints an error message, and continues as best as
possible.

All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 209983 - chkconfig breaks when encoutering broken symbolic links, symlinks

CVEs

(none)

References

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