Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:39:42 -0500
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Red Hat, Inc. Errata Advisory
Synopsis: new timetool package available
Advisory ID: RHEA-1999:056-01 I
ssue date: 1999-11-23
Updated on:
Keywords: timetool
Cross references:
1. Topic:
A new timetool package is available to fix two problems in the
package that shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1 for Intel.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel
Red Hat Linux 6.1 for Sparc is not affected.
3. Problem description:
Some erroneous linebreaks are in the timetool script. leading to
errors when attempting to set the clock to certain dates. Also,
timetool did not read /etc/sysconfig/clock correctly.
It is recommended that users upgrade to the latest timetool
packages.
4. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Uvh
where filename is the name of the RPM.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
6. Obsoleted by:
7. Conflicts with:
8. RPMs required:
Non-architecture specific:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/noarch/timetool-2.7.1-1.noarch.rpm
Source packages:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/timetool-2.7.1-1.src.rpm
9. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
3ed7de5ce045e4de338dbc5b0716ec90 noarch/timetool-2.7.1-1.noarch.rpm 3815ba684676aebc8ce071771ae8eb2b SRPMS/timetool-2.7.1-1.src.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
10. References: