[2814] in testers
Re: problems updating to 8.0A
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 15 16:28:12 1996
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, matt@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 1996 08:44:49 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:25:57 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
[3 and 10 are not my problem; 4, 5, and 6 are not yet resolved.]
> 1) Why was /var/cron/log summarily removed?
I don't think there was a good reason; I've removed this from the
version-specific update script.
> 2) My machine has a /sun4 link
Nuked in the version-specific update script now.
> 8) /usr/athena/shar/emacs/19.30/lisp/hilit19.el has an older date
> than the one on the 7.7 beta packs, therefore it wasn't synctree'd
> local like my config told it to. Is there aversion skew problem
> here?
No, it's just a question of when I installed the files. I need to
think harder about this (impossible with all these miscellaneous
problems) to decide exactly what should be changed to prevent this
sort of thing.
> 9) Many links in /usr/athena were removed (and there was much
> rejoicing). there are three remaining emacs and zmailnotify point
> to themselves in bin for reasons I more or less understand.
> session_gate points to itself in /usr/athena/bi (not bin) is this
> intentional?
The session_gate symlink slipped in because it was created by
athena/bin/session/Imakefile, an unusual practice. It's gone now.
> 11) /usr/athena/bin/kermit as a link to the modem locker seems to
> have diasppeared.
I've put a script in place to replace the symlink (symlinks to AFS
paths are a necessary evil sometimes; they are not necessary in the
case of executables). The script isn't really right yet; I need to do
something about all of the attach-and-add scripts at some point.
> 12) I can't login in console mode.
I can't reproduce this on sourcery.
> 13) config_afs no longer understands the syntax: -cell.mit.edu to
> disallow setuid from the cell 'cell.mit.edu'. It used to be the
> case that I could put '-cell.mit.edu' in
> /usr/vice/etc/SuidCells/local.
There was a bug; it's fixed now (on the packs; you'll need to update
your config_afs to get the fix).
