RHEA-2010:0666 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated ypbind package that adds an enhancement is now available.

Description

This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to
a NIS domain. Systems running NIS client programs must have ypbind running.

This package includes the following enhancement:

• the new ypbind switch "-ping-interval" sets the ping frequency to ensure the

availability of NIS servers. The default interval is 20 seconds. (BZ#441753)

Users are advised to upgrade to this ypbind package which includes 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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)