Issued:

2011-12-12

Updated:

2011-12-12

RHBA-2011:1535 - sos bug fix update

Synopsis

sos bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated sos package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The sos package contains a set of tools that gather information from system hardware, logs and configuration files. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging.

This update fixes the following bug:

• With the RHBA-2011-1028 advisory, the sosreport utility introduced the "--tmp-dir" command option allowing the sosreport tarballs to be stored in a user-specified directory. After this change, sosreport no longer determined a directory for the tarballs from the TMP environment variable. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. Log Collector application expected sosreport to use the TMP variable therefore Log Collector failed to collect the tarballs correctly from hosts. With this update, sosreport relies on the TMP environment variable again if the directory is not specified by the "--tmp-dir" option. Log Collector now works as expected. (BZ#748804)

All users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• sos-1.7-9.54.el5_7.1.src.rpm
• sos-1.7-9.54.el5_7.1.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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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/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.