Server freeze

[redhat at barendse.to (Remco Barendse)]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Sean O Sullivan wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Dave wrote:
>
>> 
>>> On 8/21/05, Remco Barendse <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It may not!!
>>>> 
>>>> I have the same issue with CentOS 3.x The box freezes if I leave auditd
>>>> enabled.
>>>> 
>>>> Once I killed auditd my problems were over (I too suspected hardware). 
>>>> Now
>>>> I get lots of laus(y) errors in my syslogd but the freezes are gone.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>
> Laus errors -- update vixie-cron to fix, had same problem on RHEL3.1 box


When looking for the fix I found that this has been fixed by RedHat

</stupid question mode on>
why isn't this update in the standard repository?
</stupid question mode off>

I prefer not to install stuff outside the standard repos to prevent that I 
miss important updated stuff