Fedora 9 Update: initscripts-8.76.4-1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-8981
2008-10-24 22:42:34
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Name        : initscripts
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 8.76.4
Release     : 1
URL         : []
Summary     : The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts
Description :
The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot
your Red Hat or Fedora system, change runlevels, and shut the system down
cleanly.  Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and
deactivate most network interfaces.

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Update Information:

This update of initscripts fixes several bugs, referenced below. It  also re-
adds a call to mdadm in rc.sysinit, to catch any degraded  arrays that have not
been automatically assembled by the udev rule.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 14 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 8.76.4-1
- use 0.0.0.0/0, not 0/0, in calls to /sbin/ip (#460580)
- fix setting of console font/map (#458362, <ak at sensi.org>)
- explicitly run mdadm on boot to catch degraded arrays. (<dledford at redhat.com>)
- check more correctly whether rhgb actually starts. (#462763)
* Fri Aug 29 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 8.76.3-1
- rc.sysinit: Don't use -L in find (#458652, #458504, CVE-2008-3524)
- fix clock rules to properly handle old-style RTC devices (#447019)
- rc.sysinit: ix typo, and don't restorecon on swap, etc. partitions (#448886)
* Thu May 15 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 8.76.2-1
- Don't unmount sysfs in halt. (#446292)
* Wed May 14 2008 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>
- init.d/functions: fix resolve_dm_raid() for older dmraid configs
* Wed May  7 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 8.76.1-1
- NMDispatcher/05-netfs: fix check for default route (#445509)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #462763 - initscript rhgb logic broken
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462763
  [ 2 ] Bug #458362 - Console applications which use "box" symbols are fsck-ed up
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458362
  [ 3 ] Bug #460580 - initscripts have troubles apparently with updated /sbin/ip
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460580
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update initscripts' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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