security-weekly.sh script contains typo in xargs option

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1

Situation

The security-weekly.sh script contains a typo in the xargs option. It calls xargs --no_run-if-empty and it should be xargs --no-run-if-empty.

Resolution

The seccheck maintenance update to version -2.0-657.13.1 released February 2012 includes the correct option. Please update the package to resolve the issue.

Additional Information

Bug # 741737 was opened, a PTF built and the patch submitted to SLES11 SP1

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