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Athena 8.4.19 patch release Monday 2000-01-29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 23 00:46:29 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:46:09 -0500
Message-Id: <200101230546.AAA15650@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
The Athena 8.4.19 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Monday January 29th. Changes in this patch release include:
* Emacs was upgraded to version 20.7, mostly to fix a
difficult tty mode bug.
* On Solaris and IRIX, the attach.conf has a rule added not to
allow mountpoints to be made on /install.
* The attach.conf on all platforms allows the noac and actimeo
options for NFS mounts.
* On IRIX, the X server has been updated (pulled in from IRIX
6.5.10) to fix a bug where gnome programs could crash the X
server.
* There's a fix to the Solaris install script.
* On Solaris, if machines magically eat their /usr/java
symlinks, the symlinks will be replaced.
* Non-Linux machines with Linux clusterinfo won't copy in
Linux passwd files any more.
* Solaris updates should work on Ultra 1s and 2s now.
* On Solaris and Linux, new /etc/athena/rc.conf variables
should get sync'd after an update. (This was already the
case on IRIX.)
* lpr now defaults to sending zephyrs to the user about jobs.
The -N option turns off zephyring.
* lpd won't send zephyrs to instance personal any more.
* lpd will say when printing is disabled even for a short
queue request.
* The tcsh handling of << documents had a temp-file handling
bug, which is fixed.
* The enscript man page has a fix for a formatting error which
was leading some users to overwrite their input files by
mistake.
* The xss logging of logged-out users now logs the correct
username.
* Solaris patches 106327-08, 106748-04, and 107058-01 were
applied, as they were required for the new Sun compilers.
* The IRIX InPerson subsystem was removed; it had a local
workstation security issue.
* On Linux, the bash, ed, modutils, ncurses, ncurses-devel,
pam, slocate, tcsh, and usermode RPMs were updated to
address local workstation security issues.
On Solaris, there are a few other changes because we withheld 8.4.17
for Solaris:
* An output format bug was fixed in attach.
* The CMU entries in the Athena Kerberos configuration files
have been updated.
* Various bugs have been fixed in lpd.
* xscreensaver will now say whether or not a screen has been
locked due to idle time, by default.
* Solaris patch 109104-04 was applied.
If you have a machine set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can update it manually
after the release goes out by doing a console login as root and
running "update_ws".
Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
