[684] in Moira
Moira 3.0 available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Wed Nov 10 17:43:45 1993
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 17:41:15 EST
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: moira@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
MIT Information Systems is now making available version 3.0 of Moira,
the Athena Service Management System. This version has major changes
since 2.2, the previous publically released version. These include
SQL to communicate with the Ingres version 6 backend, new user
attributes, new printer attributes, and generators, and a spiffy motif
based client. The clients have been ported to many new operating
systems are are largerly POSIX compliant. This is the version
currently in use here at MIT.
For people looking at Moira for the first time, be warned that you
will almost certainly need to modify the package for your site. Moira
requires a comercial database package such as Ingres (with some work,
it could be ported to Informix, Oracle, or other packages). It also
needs the Kerberos authentication system (there is no option to not
use authentication, as a system with these capabilities should not be
used without it). The Moira server implements over 100 queries, the
definitions of which may need to be changed for other sites. Some
documentation is provided, but this is non-trivial.
Moira is a registered trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). No commercial use of this trademark may be made
without prior written permission from MIT.
This distribution has been thouroughly tested (both client and server
sides) on DECstation Ultrix 4.2A. The clients are known to also work
on Ultrix 4.3, Sun Sparcs running SunOs 4.1.2 and Solaris 2.1, IBM
RS/6000 running AIX 3.2, and Vaxen running BSD 4.3. The clients
should be portable to any unix variant with sockets.
This code is available via anonymous FTP from athena-dist.mit.edu in
pub/moira/moira.tar.Z. This is a compressed tar file containing the
sources and documentation. Also in that directory is usenix.PS.Z:
compressed postscript of the paper from the Winter '88 Usenix
proceedings describing Moira, and manual.ps & manual.txt: the Moira
administrator's manual. These are also included in the complete
distribution.
While we cannot provide full support on this external to MIT, please
report bugs and enhancements to moira@mit.edu, and we will help where
we can. To join the Moira mailing list, send a request to
moira-request@mit.edu.
-Mark Rosenstein
Distributed Computing and Network Services
