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Red Hat alert RHSA-2011:1000-01 (rgmanager)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Low: rgmanager security, bug fix, and enhancement update Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:1000-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1000.html Issue date: 2011-07-21 CVE Names: CVE-2010-3389 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An updated rgmanager package that fixes one security issue, several bugs, and adds multiple enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, x86_64 3. Description: The rgmanager package contains the Red Hat Resource Group Manager, which provides the ability to create and manage high-availability server applications in the event of system downtime. It was discovered that certain resource agent scripts set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to an insecure value containing empty path elements. A local user able to trick a user running those scripts to run them while working from an attacker-writable directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges via a specially-crafted dynamic library. (CVE-2010-3389) Red Hat would like to thank Raphael Geissert for reporting this issue. This update also fixes the following bugs: * The failover domain "nofailback" option was not honored if a service was in the "starting" state. This bug has been fixed. (BZ#669440) * PID files with white spaces in the file name are now handled correctly. (BZ#632704) * The /usr/sbin/rhev-check.sh script can now be used from within Cron. (BZ#634225) * The clustat utility now reports the correct version. (BZ#654160) * The oracledb.sh agent now attempts to try the "shutdown immediate" command instead of using the "shutdown abort" command. (BZ#633992) * The SAPInstance and SAPDatabase scripts now use proper directory name quoting so they no longer collide with directory names like "/u". (BZ#637154) * The clufindhostname utility now returns the correct value in all cases.

App to Track Website Uptime and Downtime on Android | Android Advices

If you own a website domain and if you want to keep checks over the web site hosting server performances, what is the best way to do that? Many would pick up their phones and try connecting to that particular website using the EDGE, 3G and / or Wi – Fi connectivity , but is it really an efficient way to check the performance characteristics of a server and / or the web pages. Normally main performance characteristics are server uptime, downtime and response time, so accessing web page to check the uptime and downtime is definitely not a perfect way. There are various websites that offer you to check uptime and downtime but then again you need to visit those websites to check the details, though they can help you with instant SMSs and e – mails but still the level of detail required to analyze and understand is very less.

In order to understand something very clearly one needs to analyze things and we all can analyze things in a better way if we are provided with some visual interpretation and corresponding specific details. An application is now available for Android phones which will help you in showing you the exact detail needed and in a very understandable manner using graphical interpretation. This application namely Pingdom is available for free and can be installed on Android version 1.5 and up. The most appealing feature is the graphical representation which helps in perfect understanding of the server uptime and downtime history. But it is not only the graphical interpretation but the application also has some added advantages attached to it which helps us in our busy life.

Pingdom is actually a famous uptime monitoring service and Pingdom Android application helps us to connect Pingdom uptime monitoring service account. Pingdom account can be created for free, more features and services offered by Pingdom can be bought from the Pingdom website www.pingdom.com. The following is the brief information on what Pingdom application can offer.

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