perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Winnie Lacesso <>]

Happy Friday!

On Fri, 6 May 2016, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Red Hat announced a new Red Hat CVE:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0715.html
> A 'yum update' may give you a new non-web100 kernel and therefore break
...
> We are in the process of building and testing a new kernel, and will 
> alert you when we have our web100 patched version available. We'll try 
> to have it ready as soon as possible.

It appears to be ready:

 kernel i686 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.web100 Internet2-web100_kernel 28 M
 kernel-devel i686 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.web100 Internet2-web100_kernel 10 M

However on 10 May RedHet released another kernel CVE:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html

with a new kernel:

kernel-2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64.rpm

Presumably the Perfsonar experts are similarly building & testing a new
2.6.32-642 web100 kernel & will notify us when ready?

(Not having updated to the 2.6.32-573.26.1 kernel yet, figure may as well
wait another few days for the 2.6.32-642 one.....)