Fedora 17 Update: initscripts-9.37.2-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18388
2012-11-17 23:15:44
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Name        : initscripts
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 9.37.2
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/releases/i/n/initscripts/
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 fixes a few initscripts bugs, including an incompatibility with the 3.6 kernel. See the referenced bugs for more details.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 15 2012 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 9.37.2-1
- disable MALLOC_CHECK_ in debugmode, it's not thread-safe (#853175)
- use /lib/tmpfiles.d, not /etc/tmpfiles.d (#840182)
- use iwconfig instead of sysfs to check for wireless devices for kernel 3.6 (#875328)
* Fri Jul  6 2012 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 9.37.1-1
- assorted documentation cleanups
- service: add support for legacy custom actions packaged in
  /usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/<script>/<action>
- fedora-readonly: assorted minor fixes (#808907)
- match bonding devices correctly (#824175)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #853175 - debugmode: glibc mcheck does not work (with threads)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853175
  [ 2 ] Bug #840182 - tmpfiles configuration file in wrong directory
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840182
  [ 3 ] Bug #875328 - network service fails to detect and configure wireless devices after upgrade to kernel 3.6
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875328
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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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