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Re: Athena 9.4.47 patch release Tuesday May 27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Mon May 19 17:58:03 2008
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:57:24 -0400
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
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I'm hesitant to file a formal bug report, but I did run into an issue
with Athena on Solaris and Firefox. When I tried to get to a page using
MIT certificate authentication, it put me into an infinite loop asking
for my security code for the certificate, making it useless. Has anyone
else had that problem?
I ran into that on both radio-liberty and voice-of-america, two Sun
Athena workstations in our machine rooms. Has anyone else had that issue?
ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> The Athena 9.4.47 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
> of Tuesday May 27. Changes include:
>
> On both platforms:
> * Firefox will start up properly for profile names containing spaces.
> * The jwrite man page documents the -t option.
> * A file descriptor leak is fixed in nmh.
> * Double-sided printing will become the default for new users.
> * bash dotfile handling for graphical logins has been improved.
> On Solaris:
> * vold will be reenabled.
>
> Users of bash will want to be aware of the following dotfile changes
> for graphical logins:
> * tcsh dotfiles will no longer be sourced by the top-level shell.
> * .bash_environment will be sourced just once by the top-level shell.
> * .startup.X will be sourced with bash instead of tcsh.
> * On logout, .bash_logout will be sourced with bash instead of
> .logout with tcsh.
>
> None of these bash dotfile changes affect console or remote logins.
>
> 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. Please
> report any bugs you find with the "sendbug" command.
>
> Greg Hudson
> Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
> Information Services and Technology
>
