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Athena 8.4.11 patch release Wednesday 2000-08-30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 23 17:34:45 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:34:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200008232134.RAA26496@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
The Athena 8.4.11 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of next Wednesday, August 30. This patch release includes the
following changes:
* The dash man page has been fixed to mention linux.
* machtype -d should work on Linux.
* dm will syslog when an account cannot be properly removed.
* Linux has support for update_server, correcting a previous
oversight.
* The Linux packages will properly add things to /etc/shells.
* On Linux, rpmupdate has been enhanced to report when it is
going to delete packages, to downgrade i686 RPMs (in
particular, the kernel RPM) for non-i686 systems, and to
support systems with a SCSI root disk.
* On Linux and Solaris, syncconf will make backups of
configuration files properly.
* On Solaris, the krb5 programs should be doing a better job
of updating utmp.
* On IRIX, reactivate will log properly if there are stale
user session records.
For machines set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can take the update, after it
goes out, by doing a console login as root (type Control-P at the
xlogin prompt) and running "update_ws".
Please report any bugs found using the "sendbug" command. Please send
any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
