Earlier this week, RedHat has announced the second minor update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: RHEL5.2. I was not able to update the rhel5 systems I manage until Friday, when this has become available in the update channels:
cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 enhancements are primarily focused in six areas:

• Virtualization
• Laptop and Desktop improvements
• Encryption and Security
• Cluster & Storage Enhancements
• Networking & IPv6 Enablement
• Serviceability

“Update brings broad refresh of hardware support and improved quality, combined with new features and enhancements in areas such as virtualization, desktop, networking, storage & clustering and security”

For full details check out the redhat press release.

This is a well known issue, and it puzzles me that so many peoples don’t know about it. Still whenever I hear of peoples having random crashes with their systems, and they are running RHEL3, the first thing to check is if auditd is still enabled. Disabling auditd is the first things that I would recommend doing, and only after that if the problem still persists to look further into it. After recently doing this on several servers (you would think that most peoples took care of this by now, but it is not so…), I decided to post this in a separate blog entry so I can refer it, as a small step by step instructions anyone can do.
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If you are using RHEL (any version of Redhat from what I know, but if I am wrong please let me know) Fedora or Centos, you don’t have to do anything special. sudo is installed by default and you will already have it on the system.

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