[3688] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 9.1.22 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Jan 13 16:42:50 2003
Message-Id: <200301132142.QAA29790@athenaphobia.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:11:55 EST."
<200301131811.NAA03058@error-messages.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:42:45 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> * On Linux, a framework has been added for disconnected operation.
> Set DISCONNECTABLE to true in /etc/athena/rc.conf for more
> graceful off-network operation. The current level of support is
> far from optimal, but hopefully better than nothing. See
> http://web.mit.edu/disco-athena/www/ for more information.
This will render machines hung at boot time when they attempt to start
the non-existent /etc/athena/athstatusd without the patch I sent in, which
isn't in 9.1.22.
I think we either have to tell people not to do this (and be prepared to
walk the ones who do through booting single-user and hand-editing the rc
script), or consider an extremely minimal 9.1.23 instead.
Mitch
