Issued:

2009-04-22

Updated:

2009-09-02

RHBA-2009:0439 - psmisc bug fix update

Synopsis

psmisc bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated psmisc package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall, and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or file systems.

This updated psmisc package fixes the following bug:

• calling the command "fuser -m " failed to detect open files on a file system that had been lazily unmounted (by calling "umount -l ", for example). The fuser utility detects open files on lazily-unmounted file systems with this updated package.

All users of psmisc are advised to 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

Updated Packages

• psmisc-22.2-7.ia64.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-7.ppc.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-7.s390x.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-7.i386.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-7.x86_64.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-7.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 484835

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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