[15354] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.7: mkserv xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Aug 4 15:21:06 1997
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, mkserv@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15351] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
switched, there's nothing surprising going on here. The update script
does not special-case machines with particular services enabled and
leave certain configuration files alone.
Contributing to the problem here was that the athena inetd.conf was
replaced in the 8.1 releaseto update several other services. While
this is something athena reserves the right to do, it is going to
cause some losage.
On the other hand, I'm not sure what xterm.add thinks it's
accomplishing by inserting a switched inetd.conf entry, since switched
services can't be relied on. You might consider sending mail to
mkserv@mit.edu arguing that it should be changed to unswitched.>
IMy best guess at why it was written this way is so that it didn't
start tftpd's on some mkserv xterm'd machines that didn't want it (I
know that it has been used to serve macs runninf MacX.) OTOH, this
isn't a very satisfying answer, since putting it in as switched seems
like the worst of both worlds, since it can be turned on with the
access_on command by anyone who can log into the machine.
I've updated the mkserv script for athena 8.1 to install tftpd
unswitched, but I've done so in such a way that it won't take effect
if there is already a tftpd entry in inetd.conf, so if you haven't
you'll still have to fix your machines by hand, sorry. The change
should be available sometime tonight when the mkserv locker is
released.
--
Jonathon
