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Athena 8.4 release, Tuesday July 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 19 15:03:49 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200007191903.PAA17587@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
The public Athena 8.4 release for Solaris and IRIX is currently
scheduled for the evening of Monday July 24. This is a full Athena
release with operating system upgrades and many other changes. Some
notable changes in this release include:
* Operating system upgrades to Solaris 7, IRIX 6.5.7, and Red
Hat Linux 6.2.
* The standard screensaver, xss, is now run by the default
xsession. By default, it will save the screen after ten
minutes of idle time and lock the screen after eleven
minutes. Users can put "set skip_xss" in .environment to
suppress this new behavior.
* Workstations will keep a local copy of netscape from the
infoagents locker in order to improve netscape startup time.
Release notes are available at:
http://web.mit.edu/olh/Release/8.4/index.html
Solaris machines will not take the update to 8.4 unless they have a
usr partition of at least 100MB. Machines with smaller usr partitions
will have to be reinstalled before they can take the update. You can
run "add release; checkpart" to see if your machine has an adequate
usr partition.
Solaris and IRIX machines which have AUTOUPATE=true will automatically
update to the 8.4 release. To manually update a machine which is set
AUTOUPDATE=false after the public release goes out, do a console login
as root (type Control-P at the xlogin window and log in as root using
the text login display) and run:
FOR SOLARIS MACHINES:
detach -O -a
attach -O athena-sun4sys-84
/srvd/update_ws
# Wait; eventually it will give you a prompt
exit
FOR IRIX MACHINES:
detach -O -a
attach -O athena-sgisys-84
/srvd/update_ws
# Wait; eventually it will give you a prompt
exit
Please report any bugs you find using the "sendbug" command. Please
send any other questions or comments you have to release-team@mit.edu.
