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Re: [Fwd: Athena 9.4.39 patch release Monday June 18]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 4 17:50:57 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Denis Daly <ddaly@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael McIlrath <mbm@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu,
Joyce Kwong <jyskwong@mit.edu>, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Phooey. I seem to have missed this change when preparing the patch
release. Alex wants a symlink added to the release, so I'll prepare
another one which should go out within a couple of weeks, possibly
sooner.
Many apologies.
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:16 -0400, Denis Daly wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Today I logged into m38-370-1 Athena Linux workstation today but ksh
> didn't appear to be loaded. Is there something we need to do to get it
> working properly?
>
> Thanks,
> Denis
>
> Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Sure, I'll make a note to add ksh to the next Linux patch release. It
> > should happen before the end of the summer.
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:06 -0400, Michael McIlrath wrote:
> >
> >> Greg Hudson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just checked, and the availability of /bin/ksh did not change with the
> >>> 9.4.39/40 patch release. It is still present under Solaris and absent
> >>> under Linux, as it was previously.
> >>>
> >> Can ksh be added to the athena linux release? The software for a class we
> >> are trying to move to athena linux includes a third party
> >> binary program that creates a #!/bin/ksh executable script.
> >> I don't see a graceful workaround at the moment.
> >>
> >> The redhat package is pdksh and should be available through the proxy server.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
> >
>
