[161] in Release_7.7_team
August Patch Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Wed Aug 24 08:59:52 1994
To: release-77@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 08:59:33 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
The patch release went out to beta/friendly/"just call them test"
machines early this morning. The versions for this release are:
Sun 7.7I
RISC/6000 7.7F
DEC 7.7G
Concluding this message is a list of items changed and bugs fixed by
this release. I realize that most of you are busy with start of
semester things, but could you try to test something in your everyday
work (mh, for example), and/or pass this list on to anyone in your area
who uses a test machine? Please also feel free to redistribute this
message to anyone who might be interested.
Unless anything drastic occurs, this release will go to the field
around Tuesday, August 30.
Thanks,
./Dot
Changes which affect all three platforms:
o MH 6.8 has been changed to not include as a signature the
information from the user's password information. The one
function touched unfortunately caused many binaries of MH
to be relinked, so many theoretically unaffected programs
have changed.
o File protections in the hierarchy /usr/athena/lib/tex have
been changed; many files were not world-readable. While in
AFS filesystems this is not important, it is important on
the dialup machines that have local copies of the packs.
o A warning from xlogin that it couldn't get any groups
from Hesiod has been removed in anticipation of when we
start creating users without giving them their own
group by default.
o reactivate has a minor change so that it will not attempt
to reset the zephyr hostmanager when ZCLIENT is false.
DECstation specific changes
o A bug in zwgc causing it to fail to die when it should has
been fixed. (This resulted in orphaned zwgc processes on
private workstations.)
o rc.net has been updated to know about some subnets at
the media lab.
Sun specific changes
o The solaris_reconf script has been updated so that it
functions correctly.
o imake has been updated to the version that was used to
build the release.
o find has been updated to the "official" patch from Sun.
o attach has been updated so that it does not dump core
with a command line such as "attach -e /mit/xxx".
o /dev/audio is chmoded to mode 666 on reboot on PUBLIC
workstations. (This was fixed in the last release, but
this patch re-fixes things in the case where someone
hacks the workstation.)
o syslogd has been updated to a version which, according
to Sun, actually works.
o rcsmerge has been fixed to use a version of diff that
exists.
o discuss no longer coredumps when you ^C an ls.
o /usr/athena/bin/finger now works rather well instead of
returning a mess.
o sendmail.cf has been updated so that mkserv mail can more
easily allow private workstations to receive mail.
o discussd now allows acls to be changed.
RS/6000 specific changes
o zwgc has been fixed so that it will not hang when called
from a user's .startup.X file.
o imake has been updated to the version that was used to
build the release.
o The /srvd/patch version of dash has been copied onto the
packs.
