[7958] in Athena Bugs
7.3 User Release Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Fri Aug 16 22:28:19 1991
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 22:28:37 -0400
To: docsourc@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
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When the release actually goes out to the field at the end of August,
the tandrew locker will be renamed andrew and the current andrew locker
will be replaced.
There is no such thing as locker renaming. We are simply going to
update the andrew locker with the contents of tandrew when the release
hits the field.
2.4
On the DECstation, which does not support the MANPATH variable, the
Athena man pages are actually installed earlier in the search path than
the Ultrix man path, so the behaviour is the same as on the other
platforms.
MANPATH is the search path for man pages; Ultrix does not support it, so
the concept of moving man pages earlier is bogus. What we did was to
provide a replacement "man" command that functions as the Ultrix one
did, but supports MANPATH, and installed that in /usr/athena/bin. Since
/usr/athena/bin is earlier in the user's path, our "man" program will be
found before the Ultrix "man" program.
2.6
To avoid user-visible changes in the 7.3 release, Release Engineering
has put in full compatibility symlinks (symbolic links) on the VAX, RT,
and DECstation platforms. In addition, the RS/6000 platform has
compatibility symlinks for user binaries, but not for developers (this
is alright since porting BSD programs to this SysV based platform is
already a major change).
Not quite. We have provided full compatibility for user-programs on all
platforms. The VAX and RT also have full compatibility for the
development environment. The DECstation has partial compatibility for
the development environment (full compatibility was not possible). The
RISC/6000 has no compatibility for the development environment (none was
possible).
2.7
The script is called "check_dotfiles" not "check_all"
3.3
In Athena 7.3, The default lifetime for Kerberos tickets has been
extended to 10 hours (it used to be 8 hours). The way this primarily
affects users is that you will be able to work longer before getting
those obnoxious "tickets have expired" messages nad need to renew your
account.
"The" should be "the"
"renew your account" - does this mean go to the Accounts Consultant?
This is technically incorrect. "renewing your mappings/authentication"
would be more accurate.
... This command (actually an alias set up in the standard Athena
dotfiles) gets new kerberos tickets for you, re-authenticates you to any
fileservers from whicy you may have filesystems attached, and reloads
your zephyr suscriptions -- all in a single command.
"suscriptions" should be "subscriptions"
It does not reload Zephyr subscriptions; it only re-authenticates you to
the Zephyr servers.
zctl load /dev/null
reauthenticates you to the zephyr servers (you need this in order to
send authentic zephyrgrams; otherwise, your zephyrgrams will be marked
UNAUTHENTIC).
No... this makes it so that Zephyrgrams that you RECEIVE will not
mistakenly appear unauthentic.
-R
