[2106] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Linux-Athena issue status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Feb 7 20:12:34 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 07 Feb 2000 20:12:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:16:27 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1h900wbipx.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> To fix this, we need to modify athena-ws.rc and rebuild the
> athena-ws package. Right now athena-ws.rc only lives in
> Thomas's local working directory on kempis (a machine which
> I have remote access to, but not root access). I can
> rebuild athena-ws by making a copy of the relevant parts of
> his working directory, but I'm worried about further
> confusing an already not-settled process.
My copy is entirely checked in (I just checked); are you sure you are
looking at the athena-8_3-linux branch?
In any case, the present problem is the initially installed version;
the maintenance fixup of the file is much less urgent, it seems to
me.
> The installer script (phase2) should probably initialize
> the passwd and shadow files as well. The source for this
> script lives in /mit/als/src/installer, which I do not have
> write access to and which uses only numbered emacs backup
> files for version control. I do have write access to the
> production location for the installer script, of course.
Yes; that seems entirely fine.
> 2. The floppy and CD-ROM devices are more fascist than we'd
> like, at least on public machines. We have a couple of
> options here depending on what we want to have happen, but
> probably the best choice is to make the installer phase2
> script chmod the devices.
I believe this is entirely the correct approach.
Thomas
