redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question

[Seth Shoemaker]

The most likely reason for not updating the kernel is a line in your
yum.conf file that says something like "exclude=kernel*".  If you take
that out you should be just fine with the kernel updates.

Seth Shoemaker
Software Developer / Systems Administrator

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From: fedora-legacy-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-legacy-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jesse
Guardiani
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 19:25 PM
To: fedora-legacy-list at lists.dulug.duke.edu
Subject: redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question

Howdy list,

I'm new to redhat and fedora-legacy. I've been working
with redhat 7.3 for a few months now because a proprietary
package we use here at work requires 7.3 and nothing higher
(The devel team must be made up of Windows guys or something).

We bought an Enterprise 2.1ES machine for our private network,
but a customer wanted a 7.3 machine because of the price factor.
That's what got me started with 7.3.

Anyway, I come from two years of FreeBSD administration
experience and I must admit that I'm actually starting to
like the redhat way of doing things. It's nice to at least
be able to say "Yes, the OS has a GUI for some admin tasks."
But I'm starting to like other things about the redhat scene
too. I also like the fact that I can get Redhat certified.
I've never seen that sort of thing in the FreeBSD scene.

However, with all of the changes redhat has made, I was starting
to wonder what I was going to do with these boxes in 6 months
when they're chalked full of security holes. And then I found
the Fedora Legacy project. Cool! Just what I was looking for.

Two Things I noticed:
=====================
1.) I updated my system using `yum update`, and it auto-
    updated a few userland utils, but for some reason it didn't
    update my 2.4.20 kernel RPM. Not sure why.

    Here's the list of RPMs it DID upgrade:

    # rpm -q -a | grep legacy
    libpcap-0.6.2-17.7.3.4.legacy
    arpwatch-2.1a11-17.7.3.4.legacy
    cvs-1.11.1p1-9.7.legacy
    yum-1.0.3-6.0.7.x.legacy
    tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.3.4.legacy
    screen-3.9.11-4.legacy
    slocate-2.7-1.7.3.legacy

    I'm instead downloading the kernel RPM manually from here:

 
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/RH7.3/2004-03-02-FLSA_2004_1284__Upd
ated_kernel_resolves_security_vulnerabilities.html

    Does anyone have an explanation for that behavior?

2.) Does Fedora Legacy offer any additional functionality and/or
    general redhat 7.3 discussion, or should I go elsewhere
    for that? Is this strictly a security update forum, in other
    words?

    I ask because I'm having trouble with iptables + ethernet
    bridging with my stock Redhat 2.4.20 kernel (seems that bridge
    traffic doesn't pass through iptables with that kernel), and
    I was wondering if that bug was maybe fixed in the Fedora
    Legacy kernel updates?

Thanks!

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
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