Recommended update for supportutils

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:1383-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has eight fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues:

  • Updated to version 3.1.3
  • Uses SUSE FTP servers (bsc#1132865)
  • btrfs quota #43
  • supportconfig: open-files: add file flags #44
  • Merged etc_info: Add support for .cfg files in /etc dir #46
  • Silence warning in rpm backup db collection path #47
  • Set files in tarball to 660 instead of 600 #48
  • SUSE separation finalized (bsc#1125623)
  • Default compression through xz, but -z forces bzip2
  • Updated man pages (bsc#1088234)
  • Changed VAR_OPTION_BIN_TIMEOUT_SEC from 300 to 120
  • Avoids some IO delays (bsc#1100529)
  • Corrected supported services help info for -U
  • Collects iSCSI Target information (bsc#1133844)
  • FTPES uses --ssl-reqd instead of depricated --ftp-ssl
  • Defaults to https FTP server uploads (bsc#1134599)

  • Updated to version 3.1.2

  • Fixed missing sapconf and log (bsc#1081326)
  • Added timed_log_cmd to hwinfo and showmount commands (bsc#1120967)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1383=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • supportutils-3.1.3-5.13.1

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