[898] in Release_7.7_team
patch release for the SGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Mar 18 18:50:15 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:50:01 EST
A patch release for SGIs is scheduled to be deployed on the evening of
Monday 3/24. The release includes:
> * An SGI patch has been installed (1268) which prevents
> certain applications (notably Applixware and xemacs) from
> crashing the machine.
> * Security holes in talkd and write have been fixed.
> * finger service has been moved to /etc/athena/inetd.conf,
> hopefully eliminating the satwrite console mssage.
> * /etc/printcap will no longer be clobbered by updates.
Please note that both /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/athena/inetd.conf have
been modified by this update. Because mkserv became available only
recently for the SGI, some people may have modified their inetd.conf
files by hand to unswitch remote access services, and those changes
will be undone by the update (though people's old Athena inetd.conf
files will be backed up in /etc/athena/inetd.conf.old). The new,
proper way to make an SGI remotely accessible is to run "mkserv
remote" as root.
Jonathon
