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Athena 9.1.17 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 15 23:33:27 2002
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:33:16 -0400
Message-Id: <200210160333.XAA22105@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
The Athena 9.1.17 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Monday October 21. Changes include:
* Evolution should be able to print on Solaris and IRIX now.
* synctree will now report errors via its exit status, which will
make the nightly local copy of Mozilla and Netscape more robust.
* There is a new athinfo query "modules" to determine which kernel
modules are loaded.
* The "help" command will give a little more feedback in case it
takes a long time to open the web page.
* Nautilus won't be used as the default help browser, since we don't
build it with HTML support.
* On Linux, man pages under /usr/athena/man should show up in the
output of man -k.
* On Linux, the grub single-user option should be restored when the
kernel is updated.
* On Linux, the CD-ROM and floppy devices will be chowned to the
user logged in on the console.
* On Linux, machines using DHCP will set the hostname in their
network configuration, using the value of HOST in
/etc/athena/rc.conf.
* On Linux, the glibc and tar packages have been updated to keep
current with Red Hat.
* On Solaris, Sun patches 108827-30, 108901-06, 109882-06,
110723-05, 108576-31, 111993-02, and 111994-02 have been applied
to fix an RPC library buffer overflow, fix an ethernet driver bug,
and update support for a video card used in a new model of Sun
hardware.
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.
