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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0020 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2016-01-11
Updated:
2016-05-09

RHBA-2016:0020 - Bug Fix Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

logwatch bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated logwatch package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system, which goes through the user's logs for a given period of time and creates a report in the areas the user needs.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Due to insufficient logic in the source code, Logwatch failed to run if there were too many empty files to process. This update fixes the logic to skip empty files, as there is nothing in them to process. As a result, the described failure no longer occurs. (BZ#921409)

Users of logwatch are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 x86_64
  • 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 Desktop 6 x86_64
  • 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 for Scientific Computing 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 - 1196774 - When filesystem name is long, the disk full check fails to work
  • BZ - 1221963 - Logwatch cron files not marked correctly as %config(noreplace) - Fixed in Fedora
  • BZ - 1293621 - Should not change the case of $logdir

CVEs

(none)

References

  • http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
i386
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
i386
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
i386
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
i386
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
s390x
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
ppc64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
s390x
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
x86_64
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7
i386
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
s390x
logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f91bed8e0189417b5a17ca46e67a14199ed37d6f92a92d219b8b245daffc09d7

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