RHBA-2012:0262 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated piranha package that fixes two bugs and adds one enhancement is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Piranha provides high-availability and load balancing services for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. The piranha package contains various tools to administer and
configure the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), as well as the heartbeat and failover
components. LVS is a dynamically-adjusted kernel routing mechanism that provides
load balancing, primarily for Web and FTP servers.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the piranha-gui utility reported an HTTP 414 error (Request-URI

Too Long) if too many virtual servers were defined. As a consequence, when
trying to edit a virtual server, the "Too many arguments in the URL" error
message appeared. With this update, the number of defined virtual servers does
not affect the length of the URI and error messages are no longer reported.
(BZ#708035)

• Previously, the pulse service did not correctly stop the ipvsadm sync daemon

due to incorrect ipvsadm syntax. As a consequence, multiple sync daemons existed
after restarting the pulse. With this update, the correct syntax is used. The
pulse service now stops all the sync daemons, and exactly one master sync daemon
and one backup sync daemon exist at any given time. (BZ#725367)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• This update adds the 255.255.254.0 network mask to the piranha-gui drop-down

menus. (BZ#698505)

All users of piranha are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs and adds this enhancement.

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 High Availability for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 708035 - "TOO MANY ARGUMENTS IN THE URL" error
• BZ - 725367 - invalid command ipvsadm --stop-daemon (pulse.c)

CVEs

(none)

References

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