Information about the package, ElectricFence, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ElectricFence package is designed for, A debugger which detects memory allocation violations.
Package Name:
ElectricFence
Summary:
A debugger which detects memory allocation violations
Description:
ElectricFence is a utility for C programming and debugging. ElectricFence uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns malloc() buffer boundaries, and/or to detect any accesses of memory released by free(). ElectricFence will then stop the program on the first instruction that caused a bounds violation and you can use your favorite debugger to display the offending statement. Install ElectricFence if you need a debugger to find malloc() violations.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.2
Release:
28.el6
Size:
32 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the ElectricFence package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ElectricFence
This command will install ElectricFence on the server.
yum remove ElectricFence
This command will un-install ElectricFence on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ElectricFence, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ElectricFence
This command will un-install ElectricFence on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ElectricFence when using the -y flag.
yum update ElectricFence
This command will update ElectricFence to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ElectricFence, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ElectricFence
This command will update ElectricFence to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ElectricFence when using the -y flag.
yum info ElectricFence
This command will show you core information about the ElectricFence package.
yum deplist ElectricFence
This command will show you the dependencies for ElectricFence. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ElectricFence
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ElectricFence. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.