Issued:

2012-10-29

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1409 - mt-st bug fix update

Synopsis

mt-st bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mt-st packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices) can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior this update, the stinit init script did not support standard actions like "status" or "restart". As a consequence, an error code was returned. This update modifies the underlying code to use all use all standard actions. (BZ#820245)

All users of mt-st are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• mt-st-1.1-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• mt-st-1.1-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mt-st-1.1-5.el6.src.rpm
• mt-st-debuginfo-1.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mt-st-debuginfo-1.1-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• mt-st-1.1-5.el6.i686.rpm
• mt-st-debuginfo-1.1-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mt-st-debuginfo-1.1-5.el6.i686.rpm
• mt-st-1.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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