[Xymon] [EXT] Re: Xymon 4.3.29 Released - Important Security Update

[SebA]

Tom,
Oh, did your patch to do_temperature.c get removed in r8050.  Looks like it
might have done, but it's not obvious why.

Kind regards,

SebA



On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 11:21, SebA <spah at syntec.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm not going to make any judgement on the merit of your patches, Tom, but
> I did discover that you tried to get some of them merged some years ago and
> Henrik rejected (some of) them:
> https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-July/037941.html
> However, he did say he merged one of the ones you're resubmitting, so
> either it didn't actually get merged, or there's an issue with your e-mail
> and/or patch.  From that e-mail in 2013:
>
> >* ./xymond/rrd/do_temperature.c
> *>*      Strip leading bold and italic HTML tags from sensor names (seen
> *>* on
> *>* yellow and red alerts from BB tests)
> *
> OK, applied.
>
> ----------------
>
> I couldn't find any response from you to Henrik, but maybe it was private
> or not in the following 2 months.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> SebA
>
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 22:30, Tom Schmidt (tschmidt) <tschmidt at micron.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Japheth and Xymon 4.3.29 users,
>>      Attached is a context diff patch file for the Xymon 4.3.29 release
>> to address the following issues:
>>
>> Bug Fixes:
>> - build/Makefile.Linux
>>    Use tirpc replacement only on glibc 2.26 and later.  This fixes
>> compiling and RPC issues on RHEL6 and RHEL7 platforms.
>>
>> - lib/*.c files and xymonnet/xymonnet.c:
>>    Only use the "#pragma GCC diagnostic" options on gcc 4.5 and later.
>> This fixes compiling on RHEL6.
>>
>>
>> Enhancements:
>> - web/showgraph.c:
>>    Change underscore to space as this is a common mangling on temperature
>> and lic backends
>>
>> - xymond/etcfiles/graphs.cfg and xymond/rrd/do_disk.c:
>>    Change disk sizes from KB to auto-scaling (i.e. GB, TB)
>>    Add FlexLM license graph for lic backend.
>>
>> - xymond/rrd/do_temperature.c:
>>    - Strip off any bold and italic HTML tags on temperature sensor name
>>
>>
>> Thank you again for maintaining Xymon once again.  Please include my
>> recommend patches so the it compiles on RHEL6/7 platforms without issue.
>>
>>
>> Tom Schmidt
>> Sr Manager, IT, Product Engineering
>> IT ETD Eng Sites US
>> Micron Technology, Inc.
>> Office: +1 (208) 368-4058  Fax: (208)368-2807
>> Email: tschmidt at micron.com  Website: micron.com
>> Micron Technology, Inc., Confidential and Proprietary.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Japheth Cleaver
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 7:40 PM
>> To: Stephen Carville (xymon list) <scarville at lereta.com>; xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.29 Released - Important Security
>> Update
>>
>> On 7/24/2019 7:01 AM, Stephen Carville (xymon list) wrote:
>> > On 7/23/19 9:08 AM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
>> >> Lereta Email Checkpoint: External email. Please make sure you trust
>> >> this source before clicking links or opening attachments.
>> >>
>> >> *********************************************************************
>> >> *
>> >>
>> > Just an FYI.  When I updated my CentOS 7 xymon server by building from
>> > source, it refused to include the openssl libraries until I installed
>> > the libtirpc-devel package.  Not sure why it is necessary.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks, I'll make a note of that on the RPM site. The underlying reason
>> here is that GCC's rpc interface was removed after a long deprecation, in
>> favor of libtirpc. It was easier to simply test for that and move forward
>> on use. This will also be necessary for 4.4 (IPv6) and was the main cause
>> of the recent Fedora FTBFS's.
>>
>>
>> https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffedoraproject.org%2Fwiki%2FChanges%2FSunRPCRemoval&data=02%7C01%7Ctschmidt%40micron.com%7C5ba545ffc6bf46e2b2a508d710a109bd%7Cf38a5ecd28134862b11bac1d563c806f%7C0%7C0%7C636996156155520395&sdata=piP%2FSxXJ6rgvDb4Bea6PRKuxHE%2BPlAfvLehL0xGkZSw%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> Regards,
>> -jc
>>
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