RHBA-2009:1197 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated setup package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and
setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.

This updated setup package fixes the following bug:

• when shells such as bash and ksh start up, they first read the

/etc/profile script to "set up" an initial environment. Due to the use of a
redirection syntax which the ksh interpreter does not understand, upon
startup, ksh read /etc/profile and then output information about processes
which were being run in the background to standard error. This update
changes the redirection syntax in the /etc/profile script that shells read
so that ksh no longer outputs extraneous information when starting up.
(BZ#508624)

All users of setup are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves 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/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 508624 - setup-2.5.37-3.el4.noarch.rpm (RHEL-4.8) has introduced /etc/profile's glitch causing ksh to print stuff to stderr

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)