RHEA-2009:1327 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A watchdog update (re-based to upstream version 5.6) that applies several
fixes and enhancements is now available.

Description

The watchdog package provides a user-space application which can be
configured to provide updates to a hardware or software watchdog timer via
the Linux kernel's watchdog interface.

This version of the watchdog package is now re-based to upstream version
5.6. (BZ#446123)

This re-base several bug fixes and enhancements, including:

• The watchdog package was missing a required file, MNTTAB. This made it

possible for watchdog to crash when the mnt_off() function initiated a
shutdown. The missing MNTTAB file is now included with this version,
thereby avoiding any possible crashes.

• /usr/share/doc/watchdog-5.6/examples/another-chance.sh script is now

included. This script can be used as a repair binary, which can allow for
several test failures before finally rebooting.

• Several bugs in the wd_keepalive program are now fixed. With this

release, wd_keepalive now honors all command line options. In addition,
wd_keepalive now requires a watchdog device to be configured properly.

Users of watchdog are advised to upgrade to this new version.

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 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 446123 - LTC:5.3:201635:Sync watchdog package to latest available upstream

CVEs

(none)

References

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