[1995] in Release_7.7_team
8.3.22 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 14 20:40:55 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:40:04 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199911150140.UAA17693@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
This is a reminder that the Athena 8.3.22 patch release is currently
scheduled for next Monday evening, November 15. Changes include:
* (New) A configuration workaround is installed for a BIND
denial of service attack.
* SGI patch 3692 will be installed on IRIX machines in an
attempt to prevent them from hanging at random times.
* quota won't dump core on a bad option name.
* On IRIX, at boot time the passwd file will be mv'd into
place instead of copied over so that nscd doesn't pick up
an intermediate state of the passwd file.
* attach and quota are more careful to block signals when they
have attachtab resources locked.
* Filesystems defined in attach.conf should work again.
* zhm shouldn't dump core any more when the zephyr servers get
slow.
* The shrink buttons in xdvi work again.
* Machines with names that do not match *.mit.edu domain will
deliver outgoing mail directly, rather than forwarding it
through the MIT mailhubs. This means that if a remote
domain's mail server is down, the mail will be queued
locally on the athena machine rather than on the MIT
mailhub. This is accomplished with syncconf, a new rc.conf
variable MAILRELAY, and modifications to sendmail.cf.
(Solaris machines using our DHCP support will do direct
delivery with the default setting of MAILRELAY. This is
less than optimal, but fixing that will require some work.)
* Some minor updates to the os volume and install/update
scripts were made for some unsupported flavors of Sun
hardware.
Please send questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
