[1757] in Release_7.7_team
Meeting minutes, 1999-04-14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 14 16:21:16 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:21:08 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Attending: wdc, ajfox, othomas, ghudson, danw, miki, tb, rbasch, kcr
1. Hesiod
It's a little hard in BIND 8.2 to support class HS queries, but we
think we've found a way. One option is to desupport HS queries.
2. newsyslog
We had a request for a newsyslog feature to take into account a
particular Solaris syslogd failure mode present on unpatched
(non-Athena) Solaris 2.6 machines.
For now, we will provide an easy way to update the syslogd binary to a
working version.
3. 8.3
We're in alpha. Things seem to work pretty well. Most of the
reported new bugs have been fixed.
4. SGI
Bill wanted to know when we should have test machines in hand to
certify that we can buy 300MHz O2s. We'll go with the standard
answer: when we expect things to just work, we should have the test
machine one month before we have the production machines.
5. 24-bit Ultra 5s
We still don't have working 24-bit support on Ultra 5s. There has
been a recall of some Sun motherboards, but that doesn't affect at
least one of the machines which displays the failure, so that's
probably not relevant.
Right now we're waiting on me to reproduce the failure mode without
using Athena software.
6. eject
There was a request to provide eject options in xlogin. Doesn't sound
too difficult; I'll do it. tb mentioned that eject often fails to
work for various reasons, and we should have some kind of force-eject
command, but that's harder.
7. access motd
There was a request to make the message string in the access file act
as a motd when the login is successful. The motivation behind the
request was to have separate motds for local and remote logins. As
I communicated to the requestor before the meeting:
1. The access file is the wrong place for that kind of
functionality. (It could maybe be shoehorned in, but it's
the wrong place.)
2. We don't like adding lots of random useful features into
the login process which aren't related to needs of our
environment, because the login process is complicated and
mostly written by other people.
So we're not going to do this.
8. mhl
A visible difference in nmh versus the old mh is that the default
showproc is mhl, instead of more. mhl reformats the headers,
discarding some (Received) and moving others to the front (From, To).
We thought about changing things back to the old default, but decided
against it.
In other news, Dan is working on MIME support. There are some
security issues to worry about. On the plus side, we can display MS
Word files as a regular text stream using mswordview and lynx -dump.
9. IRIX OS checking
Bob has an implementation of IRIX OS checking. It won't check certain
important files which aren't under the control of inst (like the
kernel), and it will add about three minutes to the boot process. But
it's an important correctness issue, so we'll go ahead with it.
