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Sun Release 7.7K

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 19 17:49:02 1994

From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 17:48:01 +0500
To: release-77@MIT.EDU, athena-outage@MIT.EDU

Athena Sun Release 7.7K, in (J in beta since Friday; K in beta
tonight), will be going out to the field Thursday night. [The
difference between J and K is a few file ownerships; they were
mistakenly changed in J and changed back in K. Noone seemed to
notice.]

Let me (and/or Kim) know if this is a problem... A list of the changes
follows.

Thanks,
Craig

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Changes in this patch are as follows:

	o   xzwrite has been fixed not to dump core when trying
	    to send a message.

	o   synctree now properly removes files.

	o   A new version of pageview from Sun that deals correctly with
	    twm has been included.

	o   /etc/inetd.conf has been moved to /etc/inet, and a symlink
	    now points from the old location to the new. This is the
	    normal layout for Solaris.

	o   The sendmail daemon is once again not run on startup.

	o   The cm port has been enabled in inetd.conf so that Sun's cm
	    program can work. I'm not sure it does though.

	o   strings.h was added to /usr/athena/include to facilitate
	    compiling programs in the source tree which depend on it.

	o   /usr/athena/bin/talk has been added to the Suns to supercede
	    the broken version Sun ships. talk will now execute a generally
	    useful version of talk; Sun's version (useful for talking to
	    other brain-damaged Suns) may be accessed by running "otalk"
	    instead of talk.

	o   lpquota has been fixed so as not to crash the print quota
	    server.

	o   A new version of tail from Sun has been included so that
	    you can now tail more than the last 4K of a file.

	o   kshd now properly defines the PATH environment variable,
	    enabling rcp to function correctly.

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