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Athena 8.2.17 release tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Feb 8 23:07:53 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:07:45 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
[This is just a copy of last week's notice modified slightly for the
date.]
Athena 8.2.17 for Solaris and 8.2.18 for both IRIX platforms will be
released tonight, 1999-02-08. As mentioned in a previous piece of
mail, the 8.2.17 patch release for Solaris will make the commands ld,
crontab, at, atq, and atrm stop working on 8.2 machines which have not
yet taken the update. (cron jobs will continue to run; the crontab
command is for viewing and updating crontab files, not running them.)
You can avoid this brokenness either by taking the 8.2.17 update
promptly after it goes to field (AUTOUPDATE machines should generally
do this by themselves) or by running a little script as root:
add release
unscrew-8.2.17
You can run this script right now or after the 8.2.17 release goes to
field; it will work either way, and doesn't require a reboot. It just
updates a few shared libraries in /usr/lib.
As always, questions and comments can go to release-team@mit.edu.
Changes in this release include:
* On IRIX, elmer will destroy user tokens which are about to
expire (one minute away). This is an attempt to keep IRIX
machines from taking down AFS servers with traffic
overloads.
* The moof.mit.edu realm was added to the krb5.conf file.
* The AFS startup script won't start a server if AFSSERVER is
false in rc.conf (previously it checked for the existence of
server binaries).
* ndc should be able to find the named pid file.
* The buffer overrun fix for olc is now also fixed for olcr.
* On Solaris, ufsrestore is no longer setuid due to a
reported security hole.
* The hpcomm printer filter removes ^t from postscript files.
* attach will no longer run without a config file.
* The set of patches applied on Solaris has been updated to
the current (as of 12/23 or so) set of recommended and
security patches. There were also a couple of patches
applied for ProEngineer. These are the new patches:
105181-11 105210-17 105284-18 105284-20 105356-07
105357-02 105364-01 105375-09 105379-05 105393-07
105395-03 105401-16 105490-07 105558-03 105562-03
105566-05 105568-12 105580-08 105600-07 105615-04
105621-09 105642-05 105665-03 105667-02 105669-04
105703-07 105720-06 105741-05 105755-07 105786-07
105797-05 105800-05 105802-07 106040-10 106125-05
106193-03 106226-01 106235-02 106242-01 106257-04
106271-04 106522-01 106569-01 106648-01 106649-01
106650-03 106828-01
* IRIX 6.2 patches SG0003143 and SG0003163 are installed,
fixing some security problems, and the whatsnew.registration
package is removed.
* IRIX 6.3 patches SG0003144 and SG0003164 are installed,
fixing some security problems, and the "Register" package is
removed.
