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Re: sun-java6-plugin missing in debathena beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geza Kovacs)
Thu Mar 12 15:46:54 2009
From: Geza Kovacs <gkovacs@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49B80808.5060102@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:45:32 -0400
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No java plugin is preinstalled on the workstations as of now, I'll
presume you haven't deployed the update yet. I also noticed that the
command "java" points to gij and "javac" uses the Eclipse java compiler;
presumably you'll wish to change these to the OpenJDK variants with
update-alternatives. Also, I noticed that sudoer priveledges are enabled
by default - as convenient as this might be for me, is this really safe
(I presume activity done as root is getting logged somewhere)?
--Geza
I also noticed that all users have sudoer rights by default
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:50 -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi -
> Thanks for pointing that out. We recently decided to switch (or at
> least try switching) from Sun JDK to OpenJDK (which is an open source
> release of most of the Sun JAVA JDK components). We're currently testing
> that transition to make sure the cluster auto update code handles it
> correctly.
>
> We'll be sure to include OpenJDK's plugin (icedtea6-plugin) when we make
> this change live - hopefully you'll see the package installed within the
> next 24 hours or so.
>
> - Evan
>
> Geza Kovacs wrote:
> > Please add sun-java6-plugin to the debathena-extra-software metapackage;
> > it's missing in the workstations that were deployed in the 56-129
> > cluster
