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Recently RedHat pushed out a pretty major bugfix advisory for wget which addresses the following issues:

286161 – “wget –recursive” only retrieves index.html instead of all files
436822 – wget ignores ‘-P’ when Content-Disposition set on server
459679 – wget –mirror failing to retrieve files on FTP site
492672 – –no-content-disposition option aborts wget

Unfortunately at the time I’m writing this the v1.11.4 of wget has not been pushed out to any of the CentOS repositories.  (continue reading…)

In what is a rare security breach, as well as what amounts to bad news coming from Redhat there’s been a possible compromise of repository files used for updates.  If you don’t have any idea what Linux or Redhat is  then you probably haven’t heard this.  If you’re an IT administrator and haven’t heard this, then you better catch up quick.  If you work in IT security and haven’t already done this, get a new job. (continue reading…)