RHEL 6.6 kernel 2.6.32-504

[predragp at andrew.cmu.edu]

Dear Autonians,

6th update of Red Hat 6 has been released on 13 October 2014 (kernel
2.6.32-504). Josko, Prentice and bunch of other slackers from Princeton
and Rutgers needed whole two weeks to update Springdale Linux clone which
we use in our lab to version 6.6. Consequently you have been deprived
until now from this latest and greatest code. Your user-land is up to date
now but in order to pick kernel 2.6.32-504 you will have to reboot the
machine. Since computing nodes seem to work fine I personally have no
plans to to force reboot them just to pick a minor kernel update. However
I plan on rebooting my desktop. Some unimportant virtual hosts are also
rebooted.

You will also notice that Java is updated to R7u71 on all desktops, nodes
and most virtual machines. I update VirtualBox to  version
4.3-4.3.18_96516_el6-1.x86_64 on your desktops except in the cases
VirtulBox was running. If you work with Apache-Tomcat make sure you pick
the latest update 7.0.56. Public, vibtrend and few other instances of TCWI
I am taking care of are updated. Finally if you work with MySQL it has
been just updated to  5.6.21. I have only update tj-ondeck and tj-dev
virtual machines.


Sincerely,
Predrag