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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-536 Major Fixes in Procps Update

Package updated.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-536 2005-07-11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : procps Version : 3.2.3 Release : 5.3 Summary : System and process monitoring utilities. Description : The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five, and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps, and CPU activity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Tue Jul 11 2006 Karel Zak 3.2.3-5.3 - fix #161449 - "top" ignores user and system toprc - fix #161559 - top segfaults when resizing konsole - fix #160796 - vmstat crashes when accessing LVM partition. - fix debuginfo - fix #144459 - sysctl reports error: unknown error reading key ' ' (now sysctl doesn't read data from write-only /proc/sysfiles) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 22d24c8a4e0728c95684ce5157333e8c SRPMS/procps-3.2.3-5.3.src.rpm 1ae0d8d3c0298fcd26a872651bc743b8 x86_64/procps-3.2.3-5.3.x86_64.rpm d5399d8189e218afa29b88de74285204 x86_64/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.3-5.3.x86_64.rpm 8be2bbddebaa0aa8c50d0594df913f3a i386/procps-3.2.3-5.3.i386.rpm c8599903ee96fcd35323afce999ba361 i386/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.3-5.3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Uncover the specifics of the Fedora Core 3 procps enhancement, featuring improvements and rectifications for fundamental system tools.. procps Update, Fedora Core 3, System Monitoring Utilities. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jul 11, 2005 •Critical Fedora