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Athena 9.0.17/9.0.18 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 25 00:46:46 2001
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:46:42 -0400
Message-Id: <200109250446.AAA23898@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
The Athena 9.0.17 patch release (9.0.18 for Solaris) is currently
scheduled for the evening of Monday October 1. Changes in this patch
release include:
* Solaris and Linux machines should now run a talk server.
* The OS checking program for Solaris and IRIX is more careful about
deleting files.
* There are new AFS modules to fix a denial of service attack.
* The script to bring netscape local detects an (empirically) common
synctree failure and reverts to using the infoagents locker
version.
* On Solaris, logging will be turned on on UFS filesystems (it is
already on for recently installe machines), to reduce the
likelihood of machines needing to fsck.
* On Solaris, /tmp will be changed back to a symlink to var/rtmp (it
inadvertently switched to a directory on the root filesystem in
9.0).
* On Solaris, 8-bit logins should work more reliably.
* On Solaris, there are several fixes to the mechanism for some of
the contents of /usr/athena local. (Previously, reactivate would
blow away the local data, so the mechanism wasn't working very
well.)
* On Solaris, some missing header files and libraries should appear
as symlinks to /os.
* On Solaris, patches 108940-29, 108434-02, 108435-02, 108604-17,
108605-16, 108606-15, 108974-11, 109793-08, 110693-01, and
110208-09 were applied. These mostly fix OpenGL support and add
support for some Netra machines. The local packages SUNWdmfex,
SUNWlomm, SUNWlomr, and SUNWlomu were also added for the Netra
machines.
* On Linux, power saving should be disabled so that cluster monitors
don't go dark.
* On Linux, the rpm-python RPM was added (by request).
* On Linux, there are some xmh fixes.
* On Linux, some GX110s should gain sound support and GX150s should
gain USB support.
* Linux machines will reboot themselves if they detect an AFS
failure condition which occurs when machines boot without network.
* On IRIX, ntpdc should now work.
