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Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated portsentry package is available

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:07 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:070-02] Updated portsentry package is
available


                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated portsentry package is available
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:070-02
Issue date:        2000-10-03
Updated on:        2000-10-03
Product:           Red Hat Powertools
Keywords:          N/A
Cross references:  N/A

1. Topic:

Updated portsentry package is available

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Powertools 7.0 – i386

3. Problem description:

Enhancements were made to the portsentry initscript to better
handle dynamic IP addresses for users of ADSL, cable modems, etc.,
so that the current IP is automatically added to the
portsentry.ignore file at each restart without duplication.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 7.0:

i386:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/i386/portsentry-1.0-9.i386.rpm

sources:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/SRPMS/portsentry-1.0-9.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

b26feb736dc41b38f7eabddfced891b8 7.0/SRPMS/portsentry-1.0-9.src.rpm
e2aed1e761ecb47a1b51b51fec577571 7.0/i386/portsentry-1.0-9.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg

8. References:

Thanks to Henri J. Schlereth for pointing out the problem and
testing the updated package.

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.

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