RHBA-2013:1677 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated conman packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number
of console devices and simultaneous users. ConMan currently supports local
serial devices and remote terminal servers.

The conman packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.7, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. With this
update, support for the ipmiopts directive in the conman.conf configuration file
has been included. (BZ#951698)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the length range of timezone strings was not sufficient to process

all known timezone codes. As a consequence, the conmand daemon failed to start
if the timezone name consisted of five or more characters. The maximum string
length has been set to 32, and conmand now always starts as expected.
(BZ#891938)

Users of conman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements.

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 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 for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• 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 (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 891938 - [conman] conmand fails to start up when timezone set to GMT-1, WARST, EASST & others

CVEs

(none)

References

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