[LON-CAPA-admin] apache upgrade

[Martin Siegert]

Hi there,

as you may know there is a security hole in the apache web server that
leads to a DoS attack on Unix 32 bit systems (including Linux) and
to a remote exploit on Windows and Unix 64 bit systems.

I just tried to upgrade to the patched version released for RH 6.2.
This results in the following error messages:

# rpm -Fvh --test apache-1.3.22-5.6.i386.rpm apache-devel-1.3.22-5.6.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
file /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf from install of apache-1.3.22-5.6 conflicts with file from package LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1
file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf from install of apache-1.3.22-5.6 conflicts with file from package LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1
file /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf from install of apache-1.3.22-5.6 conflicts with file from package LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1
file /home/httpd/html/index.html from install of apache-1.3.22-5.6 conflicts with file from package LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1

My guess is (since this are all configuration files) that I should just go
ahead with the upgrade because the rpm upgrade shouldn't touch configuration
files anyway. It is probably a good idea to make a backup copy of those files.
Any ideas what may go wrong, if I just go ahead?

Thanks,
Martin

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Martin Siegert
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Simon Fraser University                            fax:   (604) 291-4242
Burnaby, British Columbia                          email: siegert at sfu.ca
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