[1519] in Release_7.7_team
8.2.13 public release next Monday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Oct 15 06:37:10 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
8.2.13 will be propaged to the Athena cell next Monday, 10/19. Changes
include:
* attachandrun handles a couple of cases it didn't before. It
will correctly find the binary directory in a locker when
tokens are indexed by uid (which is uncommon), and it will
run scripts through /bin/sh if they don't have a #! line,
for compatibility with command-line shell behavior.
* The Athena passwd program now ignores the calling umask, to
avoid setting the wrong permissions on the local passwd
file.
* "su" now yields a path consistent with the Athena path for
root and mostly consistent with the Athena path for other
users.
* olc_answers should work again.
* The Athena lp emulation can handle multi-word titles.
* clean_tmp_ares should function from cron on IRIX again.
* The tooltalk database server is disabled on IRIX.
* The root cshrc file sets a MANPATH so that add doesn't
disable the default man path.
* The rc.conf MACHINE variable now matches the output of
"machtype -c".
* Encrypted krb4 rcp to the local machine should work now.
* Some rsh, rcp, and rlogin error messages were being
displayed to stdout; they should correctly go to stderr now.
* machtype is now installed setgid sys instead of setuid root,
to restrict the data it can access.
* /usr/bin/lp is now overridden with a symlink to
/usr/athena/bin/lp, to support printing from applications
which call lp with an absolute path. On Solaris,
/usr/lib/print/printd is replaced with a symlink to
/os/usr/bin/lp (normally it is to ../../bin/lp) to avoid a
conflict.
* On Solaris, patch 106029-01 was applied to fix a core dump
bug in make.
* On IRIX, a bug was fixed in nanny where it could overrun its
child stack. (This doesn't address any known failures,
though.)
* On IRIX, user.info is logged again, primarily for the
purpose of getting log messages from nanny.
* Larvnet is monitoring you.
* On IRIX, xlogin sets its socket to xdm close-on-exec so it
can't get left open by a child process by mistake.
