RHBA-2007:1009 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated psmisc packages that fix a bug are now available.

Description

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.

In previous psmisc packages, running the "tmpwatch -s" or "tmpwatch

• -fuser" commands caused the fuser utility to always return a non-zero

(failure) exit code. Cleaning the /tmp directory resulted in open files
such as the GDM socket, X sockets, and the font server socket to be
deleted. The fuser utility returns the correct exit code in these updated
packages.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this
issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 243615 - tmpwatch doesn't honor --fuser

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)