Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: telnet Issue Date: May 12, 2008 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2008-05-12-63 1. Topic Updated telnet packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to telnet. 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 b) Updating manually rpm -Fvu [filenames] ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/ yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/telnet-0.17-39%{dist}.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/telnet-server-0.17-39%{dist}.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 6.0] a7183fed0843fcd65d507b48bebbc02d telnet-0.17-39%{dist}.ppc.rpm 78f51783a2a2aad8d022ee6e3189dcc3 telnet-server-0.17-39%{dist}.ppc.rpm 414c6b8009dc47088b1c76d55b3ce56f telnet-0.17-39%{dist}.src.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. Miscellaneous 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.