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Jonathon Weiss: patch release for the SGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Mar 24 15:16:27 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:16:09 EST
This is just a reminder that this is scheduled for tonight.
Jonathon
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
Subject: patch release for the SGI
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:50:01 EST
Sender: jweiss@MIT.EDU
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
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