Issued:
2009-10-15
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1509 - inn bug fix update

Synopsis

inn bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated inn packages that resolve an issue are now available.

Description

INN (InterNetNews) is a complete system for serving Usenet news and private newsfeeds. INN includes innd, an NNTP (NetNews Transport Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for each client. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol, but not in ways that are easily noticed.

These updated packages address the following issue:

  • a PID file -- /var/run/news/innd.pid -- is created by the Internet News NNTP server, innd, at startup. If this file was not present when an attempt to stop innd was made, the service did not stop. With this update, the innd init script adds logic to stop innd with the killproc command if a "service innd stop" command is issued and innd.pid cann to be found. The updated init script also returns a message, "Stopping INND service (PID not found, the hard way)", in this case. (BZ#464916)

All inn users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

The update is available via the Red Hat Network (RHN). To apply package updates via the RHN see 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

  • inews-2.4.3-9.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.s390.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.ppc.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.ia64.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.s390x.rpm
  • inews-2.4.3-9.el5.i386.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.ppc.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.ia64.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.i386.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.s390x.rpm
  • inn-2.4.3-9.el5.src.rpm
  • inews-2.4.3-9.el5.ppc.rpm
  • inews-2.4.3-9.el5.s390x.rpm
  • inews-2.4.3-9.el5.ia64.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • inn-devel-2.4.3-9.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information