Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: bash Issue Date: Jun 23,2003 Priority: medium Advisory ID: YDU-20030623-1 1. Topic: Updated bash packages are available. 2. Problem: "The GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash) is a command language interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Several bugs have been found in the bash package, some of which affected usability. The packages included in this erratum contain fixes that address these issues." From Red Hat Advisory 3. Solution: a) Updating via yum... We suggest that you use the yum program to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will retrieve and install the fixed version of this update onto your system: yum update bash b) Updating manually... Download the updates below and then run the following rpm command. (Please use a mirror site) rpm -Fvh [filenames] Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0/ ppc/bash-2.05b-20.1a.ppc.rpm ppc/bash-doc-2.05b-20.1a.ppc.rpm 4. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 3.0] 8c1f8b9f622deeab6137dbc437f01e72 SRPMS/bash-2.05b-20.1a.src.rpm 43d7ed4b16c07b9dfffe950dff08d8ae ppc/bash-2.05b-20.1a.ppc.rpm dba16ff730d4649331bfd2e617db812a ppc/bash-doc-2.05b-20.1a.ppc.rpm If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine the md5sum with the following command: md5sum 5. Misc. Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/ for more information. For information regarding the usage of yum, see: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yum.shtml