[6157] in Hotline Meeting
FYI: Athena Release 7.3N
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (salemme@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 20 13:53:16 1991
From: salemme@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 13:52:40 -0400
To: cluster-managers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
As some of you may have heard, we will shortly be releasing new
software for all Athena workstations. This is because of one serious
bug on the VAX and RT which was triggered by the new RISC/6000
workstations, and a name resolution problem on the DECstations.
The current plan is to release the new VAX, RT, and DECstation
software to the testers' workstations ASAP, probably this weekend.
It will only be made available to the rest of campus when we are sure
that no additional problems have been introduced, probably after a
week of testing. Only after all NFS servers have been updated can the
RISC/6000 workstations be turned on again.
You should take this update when it comes out, even if you have
customized workstations. It is important that any VAX or RT which is
used as an NFS server get the new kernel. With this kernel, you could
leave the machine at 7.3M, although we do strongly suggest that you
just take the update.
Release 7.3N changes:
Vax: fix kernel memory leak in RPC code
install working xquota
fixup public workstation cleanup in /etc/rc
fixup install procedure
/etc/named.root update for NIC move
RT: fix kernel memory leak in RPC code
fixup public workstation cleanup in /etc/rc
fixup install procedure
/etc/named.root update for NIC move
DECstation: new named installed
new machtype (DS5000 model 100 support)
installation support for DS5000 model 100
copy /etc/update local
/etc/named.root update for NIC move
RIOS: our named has been ported
config file for AIX snmpd
dosread has been ported
crypt has been ported
spell has been loaded from IBM lpp
Xlogin no longer mentions "Shutdown window system" or supports ^P
the /bin/login greeting mentions "non-root logins may not work"
proper config file installed so that andrew can print
xlogin will correctly detect local vs. remote homedirs
AFS updated to 3.1a to fix cache corruption
NFS UDP checksumming is enabled at boot time
/etc/named.root update for NIC move
