[3029] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Hesiod rego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Tue Oct 3 18:07:47 2000
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:07:35 -0400
Message-Id: <200010032207.SAA06772@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Here's the message displayed in the dialogue box, now.
Alex.
Athena software is often upgraded, and it'll be
much easier and more secure for you if these
upgrades are performed automatically and
transparently. Because the auto-upgrade facility
was designed for hetergeneous clusters of machines,
(Athena clusters) information pertaining to the
updates is currently stored centrally by MIT
Information Systems, and you will have to register
with them to get the updates. The information they
obtain from this is just the fact that you
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running SIPB Linux, and they could determine it
anyway, if they were so inclined, so it's really
not much of a privacy issue.
If you're a student, and this is your personal
machine, enter your Athena username in the form
below, and choose "Send mail". Otherwise, you'll
have to register your machine for hesiod at the web
page http://web.mit.edu/acs/min-std-athena.html.
Note that this won't work if the machine is not
directly connected to MIT's network, so if you're
installing this on a machine that isn't on campus,
for instance, you should probably just ignore this
page and click "Don't send mail".
