Issued:
2009-02-18
Updated:
2009-09-02

RHBA-2009:0294 - unix2dos bug fix update

Synopsis

unix2dos bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated unix2dos2 packages that resolve a bug are now available.

Description

The unix2dos utility converts UNIX text files to DOS or MAC format.

This updated package provides a fix for the following bug:

  • when unix2dos created a new file as the output of its conversion (when run with the -n option), the new file would always have its permission mode set as 600, regardless of the permission mode of the original file. Unix2dos now sets the permission mode for the new file to be the same as the mode of the old file, filtered through the user's umask.

Users of unix2dos should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

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 This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.i386.rpm
  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.src.rpm
  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.ppc.rpm
  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.s390x.rpm
  • unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information