Subject: SLS 1.05: update/patch
From: [email-masked] (Peter MacDonald)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:33:55 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

The following update is to SLS 1.05, which was released about 
a week ago:

KERNEL PATCHES:
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There are two new SLS bootdisks on tsx-11.mit.edu.  They incorporate 
patches (which you can also find at the end of this note).  These
should fix the problems that some have been seeing with either hanging
at boot-time, or other seemingly random behavior that occur only on
certain hardware configurations.  

Note:  Due to the nature of the fixes, you should probably update your 
bootdisk to get the new kernel, *EVEN* if you do not see any problem with 
the current kernel.  And you should get and apply the patch at bottom
to the source.  If you don't, some lurking nasty may one day bite you.

A1 (5 INCH):
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There is also a fix for the broken a1.5 which after updating e2fsck now/needs 
ld.so.  This was not detected because ld.so on the floppy was a link to ld.so on
the SLS CD against which test installs were done against.  Room was made for
ld.so on a1.5 by dropping out the CD drivers from the floppy.  But since
there was a little room left over, the unix sockets were added back in,
and so do not have to be loaded in rc anymore.   This latter is just a 
convenience.  I am looking at making the 3.5 inch version of the release
available on tsx in soft-link format.

NEW B7/MODULES.TGZ:
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Again, because of the above fixes, you should get the new modules
unless you plan to build the kernel yourself (which at this stage
may not be a bad idea).

MISC PROBLEMS:
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Note that both su and in.ftpd did not get support for shadow compiled into
them.  I am working on fixing that, but in the meantime you should know 
the following.

Shadow support is completely optional in SLS.  To disable it, just rename 
/etc/shadow to something else.   If you do so, make sure you use the "passwd"
program to set passwords for at least root.  The passwd program has been
modified to look for /etc/shadow, and if not found assume that you do not
want them.  The shadow support SLS added to util-linux is such that
shadow aware binaries automatically adapt to either mode.

Also, not that a couple of permissions did not get set correctly.  Just do 
the following to correct rsh/rlogin not working for non-root:

	chmod a+x,u+s /usr/bin/rlogin /usr/bin/rsh

OTHER PROBLEMS:
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If you do find a problem, particularly a kernel problem regarding modules, 
you shouldn't assume someone else has reported.  Please let me know.
Given the traffic on the news groups, it is better to send me mail at: 

	[email-masked]

Thanks

Peter
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