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Re: sun-java6-plugin missing in debathena beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 12 17:40:39 2009
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:39:38 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Geza Kovacs <gkovacs@mit.edu>
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Hi Geza -
Sorry for the delay. I've just uploaded the change for all Debathena
cluster machines, so OpenJDK as well as the plugin should get installed
over the course of the next 2 hours.
- Evan
Geza Kovacs wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
>
