Excerpts from Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)'s message of 2014-09-25 11:16:35 +0200: > Yesterday a lot of yum-updates ran to update to the latest bash-versions. > > Though my /bin/bash was changed last night, and yum.log shows 3.2.33 should > have installed, > # /bin/bash --version still shows 3.2.25 > > Ofcourse, also # strings /bin/bash shows old version number. > > Is this a policy NOT to change version-numbers ?
The version of bash has not changed. Only the release number. i.e additional patches ontop of bash version 3.2.25. Run rpm -q --changelog bash | less should give a clue as to patches being applied Steve > > Regards, > Carel -- -- Steve Traylen, CERN IT.