mar@MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein) (03/24/90)
This is to announce the public release of version 2.2 of Moira, the Athena Service Management System. Since the alpha test version (2.0) was made available, there have been many fixes and improvements, and we have cleaned up many MIT-specific things to make the package more general. This software is (c) Copyright 1990 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It will require some work to integrate at other sites unless all the Athena network services are available. This is the system currently in use at Athena; the system has been in service for 2.5 years here. We run the clients on VAX hardware under 4.3BSD, and and IBM RT/PCs running AOS (IBM's version of 4.3BSD); the server runs on VAX hardware under 4.3BSD. The clients have had some testing on Ultrix 3.1 on the DECstation 3100, SunOS 4.0 and Next 1.0 as well. You are expected to have Kerberos (Project Athena's authentication service) and RTI Ingres (a relational database system available from Relational Technology, Inc.) before attempting to build and install Moira. A design goal was to not be tied in to one database, but since we don't have other databases or SQL currently available at Athena, this is the only supported database. It would take a fair amount of work to port it to another relational database, and is not feasible to run using dbm files. If you do decide to port to another database, you may want to discuss it by e-mail to moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. Moira (and Kerberos, if you need it) is available via anonymous FTP from ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU (internet address 18.71.0.38). In the directory pub/moira, you will find five files: moira.tar.Z.aa 512000 split compressed tar of sources & documentation moira.tar.Z.ab 512000 split compressed tar of sources & documentation moira.tar.Z.ac 300758 split compressed tar of sources & documentation tech_plan.PS.Z 119117 postscript file of the technical description (83 pp) usenix.PS.Z 47837 postscript file of the Winter 88 Usenix paper (11 pp) To retrieve the complete distribution, get the three moira.tar.Z.a* files, concatenate them together, uncompress the result, then untar it. This complete distribution contains the other two documentation files. This is the only way to get this software now; a distribution tape with all the Athena network services may be available in a few months. If you want to receive a notice when this tape becomes available, please send your request to info-panss-request@ATHENA.MIT.EDU General discussion about this software may be directed to the mailing list moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU; to be added to this mailing list, send a message with your e-mail address (relative to the Internet) to moira-request@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. Bugs should be reported only by mailing to bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. We make no guarantees that bugs will be tracked in real-time, although we will provide what support we can. -Mark Rosenstein Project Athena Systems and Operations