RHBA-2011:1232 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated bacula packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and
verification of computer data across a network of different computers.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the bacula packages were not distributed with the

applybaculadate file. As a result, the logwatch cron script failed. The problem
has been fixed by including the applybaculadate file in the bacula packages so
that the logwatch cron script now works as expected. (BZ#651776)

• Prior to this update, the make_catalog_backup.pl script created a MySQL

configuration file, which had the file permissions set to world-writeable and
world-readable so that MySQL did not accept the configuration file with these
permissions and the MySQL database login configuration was not used. As a
result, it was not possible to complete a MySQL database dump. With this update,
the configuration file is now created with correct permissions, and the MySQL
database login configuration is used by MySQL so that it is now possible to
complete the MySQL database dump as expected. (BZ#651780)

• Prior to this update, there was no option to change Bacula's runtime user. As

a consequence, Bacula was always run under the root user. The problem has been
fixed by adding support for the bacula-dir, bacula-fd, and bacula-sd files in
the /etc/sysconfig/ directory; these files can be used for specifying a non-root
user and group with the DIR_USER, FD_USER, SD_USER, and DIR_GROUP, FD_GROUP and
SD_GROUP options, respectively. With this update, Bacula can be run under the
specified user. (BZ#651786)

• Prior to this update, when creating a symbolic link to the "bscan" utility,

the new link was erroneously named "dbcheck". As a result, the already existing
"dbcheck" symbolic link was overwritten by the erroneous one. Thus the "dbcheck"
command ran the "bscan" utility so that it was not possible to execute the
"bscan" utility with the "bscan" command. The problem has been fixed in this
update so that the "dbcheck" and "bscan" utilities now work as expected.
(BZ#651787)

• Prior to this update, Bacula's default configuration missed a required option.

As a result, the Bacula tray monitor component terminated unexpectedly. The
problem has been fixed by adding the "Address" option to the "Director" section
in the Bacula tray monitor configuration file so that the Bacula tray monitor
now works as expected with the default configuration file. Note that this bug
fix does not alter any existing Bacula tray monitor configuration file. As a
consequence, the Bacula tray monitor can terminate unexpectedly if the existing
Bacula tray monitor configuration is incorrect. (BZ#657297)

• Prior to this update, the backup size was computed incorrectly under certain

circumstances. As a consequence, the reported size of the incremental backup
could have been wrong. The problem has been fixed by correcting the backup size
computation process so that the size of the incremental backup is now reported
correctly. (BZ#689400)

• Prior to this update, the shadow-utils package was not listed among the

package dependencies for Bacula. As a result, the bacula user and bacula group
were not created when the shadow-utils package was not present on the system,
and a warning message was displayed during the bacula packages installation.
This bug has been fixed by adding shadow-utils to the package dependencies.
(BZ#712794)

• Prior to this update, the chkconfig package, which contains the "alternatives"

utility, was not listed among the package dependencies for Bacula. As a result,
the bacula-dir and bacula-sd services were not configured, the "alternatives"
utility was not found, and Bacula's symbolic links were not created. These
problems have been fixed by adding chkconfig to the package dependencies.
(BZ#712804)

All users of Bacula are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 651776 - bacula / bacula-director-common / missing applybaculadate
• BZ - 651780 - bacula / wrong argument in /usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl
• BZ - 651786 - bacula / init-scripts and sysconfig files
• BZ - 651787 - bacula's alternatives links wrong
• BZ - 657297 - [abrt] crash in bacula-traymonitor-3.0.3-5.fc12: __strlen_sse2: Process /usr/sbin/bacula-tray-monitor was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 689400 - List jobs/status client showing wrong size of Incremental backup
• BZ - 712794 - bacula-common should depend on shadow-utils
• BZ - 712804 - bacula-director-* and bacula-storage-* packages should depend on chkconfig

CVEs

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References

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