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Re: 8.1.0 release on a Sparc 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri May 16 00:27:39 1997
To: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 1997 23:50:36 EDT."
<199705160350.XAA19808@partly-cloudy.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:27:32 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> While manually updating to 8.1.0 from 8.0K at about 10pm yesterday,
> I got a list of files that would be replaced by the update (and
> renamed *.old), followed by the "Press return to continue" prompt.
> The update did NOT stop at the prompt, but kept going.
Known, will be fixed in the next patch release.
> When I finally checked the changes to rc.conf, I found that it had
> been changed *twice* by the update, so my original rc.conf was
> permanently gone, and that I could only speculate on its contents...
> (I.e. rc.conf.old was an interim version, created during the
> update.)
I can't find any reason why this would happen. Can you please send me
the output of "ls -l /etc/athena/rc.conf*" and the contents of
/etc/athena/version?
> It looks like /usr/athena/etc/login.krb uses a different default for
> KRBTKFILE than rkinitd. The former uses "/tmp/tkt_3" for ttyp3, or
> pts/3, or whatever, while the latter uses /tmp/tkt$uid. Shouldn't
> the krb4 ticket file default for login.krb stay consistent with the
> krb4 "ticket-forwarding" mechanism?
I'll look at this.
