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reminder: 8.2.13 went public last night

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Tue Oct 20 04:50:11 1998

To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 1998 04:50:01 -0400

8.2.13 just went out to the athena cell for all three platforms.  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_areas should function from cron 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.

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