[CentOS] leap second and Centos

Wed Mar 25 12:41:33 UTC 2015
Tris Hoar <trishoar at bgfl.org>

On 24/03/2015 18:54, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:56:27 -0500
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't anyone have a list of the oldest
>>> kernel version for each Centos version  you could be running and still
>>> avoid known problems?
>>
>> The best answer to your question is "the latest version", since previous versions all have known issues of one kind or another.
>>
>> It's not a great idea to run outdated Centos systems with known bugs of any kind.
>
> I can't argue with that (then again, you were running that buggy code
> before and happy with it), but having to reboot frequently is not
> ideal either, particularly on machines where scheduling downtime is a
> fairly involved process.   I'm looking for the compromise with the
> least pain involved.
>
Hi Les,

https://access.redhat.com/labs/leapsecond/leap_vulnerability.sh
If you don't have a subscription then the key bits from the script are:
# RHEL 4 needs to be after -89
# RHEL 5 needs to be after -164
# RHEL 6 Affected Versions
# 6 GA: All Versions
# 6.1: Versions before -131.30.2
# 6.2: Versions before -220.25.1
# 6.3: Versions before -279.5.2

and that the tzdata should be from 2015

Tris


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