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Re: Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
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Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:45:47 +1000
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Yeah I got that message on 17th, so I guess it may depend on who is sending the messages from SL

Cheers

Bill

 

 

-----Original message-----

> From:O'Neal, Miles <[log in to unmask]>

> Sent: Wednesday 21st June 2017 9:13

> To: Steven J. Yellin <[log in to unmask]>; Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>

> Cc: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

> 

> The SL email system was also broken for

 

>       a while. A message came through about that within the last couple

 

>       of days.

 

>       

 

>       On 06/20/2017 06:04 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

 

>         Last November I was "automatically removed from

 

>       the SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS list (Mailing list for Scientific Linux

 

>       users worldwide)  as a result of repeated delivery error reports

 

>       from your mail system."  So one possibility is that your mail

 

>       system is occasionally failing to deliver mail to you from this

 

>       list, but you haven't yet been removed.  In my case, the reason

 

>       was that the listserver sometimes sends email with a header longer

 

>       than 32768 bytes, which the SLAC mail system couldn't handle. 

 

>       FermiLab said such long headers are becoming necessary because

 

>       "cloud systems that everyone has and will be moving to, add

 

>       additional diagnostic info in the headers so if people report any

 

>       errors, they can more easily be diagnosed."  The solution was to

 

>       convince the managers of SLAC's mail system to increase their

 

>       incoming header size parameter.

 

>       

 

>       

 

>       Steven Yellin

 

>       

 

>       

 

>       On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Bill Maidment wrote:

 

>       

 

>       

 

>       Hi. Is there something wrong with this

 

>         mailing list? I received this response, but I never received the

 

>         original message. This is not the first time I have noticed

 

>         this.

 

>         

 

>       

 

>       Cheers

 

>         

 

>         Bill

 

>         

 

>         

 

>         

 

>         -----Original message-----

 

>         

 

>         From:Stephan Wiesand

 

>           <[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

 

>           

 

>           Sent: Wednesday 21st June 2017 2:58

 

>           

 

>           To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

 

>           

 

>           Subject: Re: Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL6.x

 

>           i386/x86_64

 

>           

 

>           

 

>           Kudos to the SL team at FNAL for once again getting the

 

>           updates for a really nasty issue out incredibly quickly.

 

>           Impressive.

 

>           

 

>           

 

>           --

 

>           

 

>           Stephan Wiesand

 

>           

 

>           DESY -DV-

 

>           

 

>           Platanenenallee 6

 

>           

 

>           15738 Zeuthen, Germany

 

>           

 

>           

 

>           

 

>         

 

>     

 

> 

 

> -- 

 

>       Miles O'Neal

 

>       CAD Systems Engineer

 

>       Cirrus Logic | cirrus.com | 1.512.851.4659

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