RHEA-2011:1009 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new man-pages-overrides package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.

Description

The man-pages-overrides package contains a collection of manual ("man") pages to
complement other packages or update those contained therein.

This enhancement update adds the man-pages-overrides package to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5. (BZ#558469)

Among other changes, this new package fixes the following manual pages issues:

• A typo in the crontab(1) manual page has been fixed. (BZ#448544)
• A reference to the nonexistent pacct(5) manual page in the sa(8) manual page

has been removed. (BZ#464865)

• Missing pnmtojbig(1) and pcdovtoppm(1) manual pages have been added.

(BZ#496036)

• The mount(8) man page now contains missing information about the ext4 and XFS

file systems. (BZ#536899)

• The sh(1) man page now contains fixed information about the default value of

the PATH variable. (BZ#576795)

• The expect(1) man page formatting issue has been fixed. (BZ#633696)
• The ypserv(8), rpc.yppasswdd(8) and rpc.ypxfrd(8) manual pages now contain

information about the possibility of setting internal options. (BZ#656438)

• A typo in the cron(8) manual page has been fixed. (BZ#658860)
• The route(8) manual page now includes an explicit description of the "mss M"

option. (BZ#671321)

• The unsupported keyword "order" has been removed from the host.conf(5) manual

page. (BZ#698153)

• The path to the cifs.upcall program has been corrected in the cifs.upcall(8)

manual page, and the nounix option description has been added to the
mount.cifs(8) manual page. (BZ#621926)

• The ldap.conf(5) manual page has been modified in order to prefer usage of the

TLS_CACERT option instead of the TLS_CACERTDIR option to specify Certificate
Authorities. (BZ#649048)

All users should install this new man-pages-overrides package.

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 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 - 448544 - man page typo -- two be -- should be not two be's ;)
• BZ - 464865 - pacct man page referenced but does not exist
• BZ - 496036 - Missing documentation for pnmtojbig, pcdovtoppm
• BZ - 536899 - mount man page is missing support for ext4/xfs
• BZ - 576795 - KSH default path missing 'cwd' /bin:/usr/bin missing colon at the end
• BZ - 621926 - mount.cifs(8) man page missing nounix option
• BZ - 633696 - Man page is bad formatted
• BZ - 649048 - Document preferred use of TLS_CACERT instead of TLS_CACERTDIR to specify Certificate Authorities
• BZ - 656438 - There is no references for some variables in documentation sysconfig.txt
• BZ - 658860 - Typo in patch for crond manpage removes mention of cron.d
• BZ - 671321 - route command option mss sets MTU
• BZ - 698153 - Remove documentation for "order" keyword in /etc/host.conf manpage

CVEs

(none)

References

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