Fedora 16 Update: initscripts-9.34.4-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18389
2012-11-17 23:15:50
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Name        : initscripts
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 9.34.4
Release     : 1.fc16
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> - 9.34.4-1
- disable MALLOC_CHECK_ in debugmode, it's not thread-safe (#853175)
- 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> - 9.34.3-1
- assorted documentation cleanups
- service: add support for legacy custom actions packaged in
  /usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/<script>/<action>
* Mon Mar 12 2012 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 9.34.2-1
- ifup-aliases: fix IFS usage mangling of device names (#802119)
- ifup/ifdown: fix typo (#802055, <lubek at users.sourceforge.net>)
* Fri Mar  9 2012 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 9.34.1-1
- sysconfig.txt: clean up section on disabling IPv6
- ifup: allow for ifup-$TYPE/ifdown-$TYPE
- fedora-readonly.service: drop StandardInput=tty (#785662)
- sysconfig.txt: document additional ETHTOOL_OPTS enhancements (<raghusiddarth at gmail.com>)
- don't use ifconfig in ifup-aliases (#721010, 588993, based on <tgummels at redhat.com>)
- fedora-storage-init: handle dmraid sets with spaces (#728795, <lnykryn at redhat.com>)
- fedora-readonly: don't exit with an error if SEinux isn't active. (#768628)
- fedora-wait-storage: drop stdin/stdout/stderr (#735867)
* Tue Oct 25 2011 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 9.34-1
- read locale.conf if it exists (#706756)
- ifdown: fix logic error with removing arp_ip_target (#745681)
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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 #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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