Issued:

2012-04-03

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0447 - portreserve bug fix update

Synopsis

portreserve bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated portreserve package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The portreserve package helps services with well-known ports that lie in the portmap range. It prevents portmap from occupying a real service's port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port, generally in the init script.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the init script for the portreserve daemon did not always return the correct exit code. As a consequence, an incorrect error message was displayed. With this update, the init script is modified to return the correct exit codes, and also appropriate messages are now displayed. (BZ#614924)

• The portreserve package requires the "chkconfig" command because it is run in installation scriptlets. However, this was previously not reflected in the package metadata, and error messages could be displayed during installation. To prevent this issue, this update adds requirement tags for chkconfig. (BZ#712362)

All users of portreserve are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

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

• portreserve-0.0.4-9.el6.i686.rpm
• portreserve-0.0.4-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
• portreserve-0.0.4-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
• portreserve-debuginfo-0.0.4-9.el6.i686.rpm
• portreserve-debuginfo-0.0.4-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
• portreserve-0.0.4-9.el6.src.rpm
• portreserve-debuginfo-0.0.4-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
• portreserve-debuginfo-0.0.4-9.el6.s390x.rpm
• portreserve-0.0.4-9.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 712362
• This content is not included.BZ - 718176

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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