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8.0.3 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Wed Apr 22 22:56:04 1998
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:55:50 EDT
This afternoon the 8.0.2 and (due to some uncovered bugs)
8.0.3 releases of the alpha NetBSD-Athena system packs went out, and
machines with AUTOUPDATE=true set should take the update. Changes from
8.0.1 include:
* The standard kernel no longer has the wss (Windows Sound
System) driver enabled, as it caused panics on popular
models of Dell machines.
* Support for the ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT environment variable (see
add(1)) was added.
* The 'term' alias in the standard dotfiles was fixed.
* A buffer overflow in zlocate was fixed.
* A buffer overflow in cview was fixed.
* The emacs19 script was removed.
* attachandrun no longer kills programs after 60 seconds with
SIGALRM. This, and a change to the way mkserv is run, should
fix the '"Alarm clock" during update' problem.
* The discuss server can read a krb5 keytab in its server
directory, rather than /etc/krb5.keytab.
* The lpr program gives an error on "lpr -ppritner".
* The getcluster program no longer complains if the local
cluster file is missing.
* The zhm daemon no longer drops subs when switching servers.
* The /etc/athena/rc.conf variable ACCESSON was added, which
allows a machine to default to either access_on or
access_off mode by default. access_on/off now affects sshd
as well if the SSHD variable is set to "switched". The
"mkserv remote" scripts have been updated to account for
this.
* A symlink attack through dsmail was fixed.
* The dsmail program doesn't preserve Delivered-To lines
(commonly added my qmail) by default.
Any questions and comments should be addressed to netbsd-help@mit.edu.
- Nathan
