Rick, I'm a little surprised here - I don't know why you would put a playback machine on a network connection that has direct access to the internet. For best security practices it should be on a private network without internet access.
Even though Linux is much more secure then other OSes, what you've described is just asking for trouble. Lorne Tyndale > > > We are using the CentOS-6 that is part of the Rivendell Broadcast Appliance > system from Paravel Systems. We have a paid-up support contract. It’s > really great, and we love it a lot! Thanks for all the wonderful features! > > Now the problem: > > The Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update appears along with more than 300 other updates > from Centos when we run “yum check-update”. Some of those CentOS updates are > important security fixes. So far as I know, there are no security issues > with the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 package. > > However, if we hold off installing the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update because we > don’t want to deal with the bug in the attached mail from Fred Gleason, > discovered by Ryan Williams, we are also holding off on installing all the > security (and other) fixes from CentOS. > > We have two alternatives, as I see it. > > 1) What we’re doing now: hold off on any updates until the attached bug is > fixed by Paravel Systems. > > or > > 2) Disable the Paravel Systems repo in the yum configuration files, thereby > preventing the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update from being applied — along with > everything else from Paravel. We’ve never done this before (never needed > to!) and we don’t know what it might break if we try it. If it breaks > something in the Rivendell system, that will take us off the air, which we > don’t want to do. > > So… > > Please fix the attached bug! > > Thanks! > Rick Thomas > SysAdmin, KPTZ 91.9 FM, Port Townsend, WA > > > On May 16, 2017, at 1:26 PM, Scott Spillers <sco...@paravelsystems.com> wrote: > > > Rick, > > We do not have any influence over development of the CentOS Linux > > distribution, only the Rivendell code. What version of CentOS are you > > using? CentOS 5 has reached end of life and is no longer updated. You may > > want to consider updating to CentOS 7 if your version of the distro is no > > longer supported. > > > > Scott Spillers > > sco...@paravelsystems.com > > > > On May 16, 2017 12:10 PM, "Rick Thomas" <r...@kptz.org> wrote: > > Dear Rivendell developers, > > > > We’ve been holding off installing the Rivendell2.15.3-1 update, hoping to > > see a fix for this bug. > > > > But with all the activity over the NSA zero-day exploits released a few > > months ago, it’s becoming imperative that we get the security updates from > > CentOS that this is blocking. > > > > Please bump up the priority on this one… > > > > Thanks, > > Rick Thomas, > > SysAdmin KPTZ, 91.9 FM Port Townsend, WA > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > > From: Fred Gleason <fr...@paravelsystems.com> > > > Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:05 AM > > > Subject: Re: [RDD] Rivendell v2.15.3 > > > To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System > > > <rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> > > > > > > On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:57, Ryan Williams <rya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I'm having an regression with the most recent release. If I open > > >> RDLogEdit and try to add to a log's description it does not save. We use > > >> the field field to add "READY" to the end of the description when the > > >> log is cleared for air, so this one is going to sting a lot. > > > Partially confirmed here. If you use the ‘Save’ button, the updated > > > Description is indeed lost. However, clicking ‘OK’ (without clicking > > > ‘Save’ first) appears to work normally. > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > |----------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > > > | | Paravel Systems | > > > |----------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > > > | -- Cicero | > > > |----------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > > > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
