aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) (01/10/91)
Archive-name: fixes/sun-fixes/princeton.edu/1991-01-09 Archive-directory: princeton.edu:/pub/sun-fixes/ [128.112.128.1] Original-posting-by: aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) Original-subject: Summary: Public availability of Sun 4.1.1 patches Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) ( I had asked if all sun patches were available somewhere. Also, about ldd doing a core dump - Summary for both is attached). About "ldd", it does a core dump when it tries to do an 'ldd /etc/ld.so.cache' - no fixes yet. A pretty comprehensive collection of patches for SunOS's are available via anonymous FTP from: nic.funet.fi in pub/unix/sun princeton.edu in pub/sun-fixes A couple of people mentioned that they spoke to Sun regarding this, and the reply they got from Sun was that "they can only have patches when they find a problem, because some patches clash and need fine tuning depending on the hardware and software". All I have to add to this is that Sun better get its act together before people start weighing the support disadvantages against the hardware advantages. Two people mailed me a list of patches available for SunOS4.1.1 - 110 4.1.1/100159-01 SunOS 4.1, 4.1.1:system hangs using sockets in local loopback tcp-ip 111 4.1.1/100173-01 SunOS 4.1.1: NFS Jumbo Patch 112 4.1.1/100174-01 SunOS 4.1.1: fixes for tmpfs bugs. 113 4.1.1/100179-01 SunOS 4.1.1:polling not working correctly 114 4.1.1/100185-01 -etc-rc.local can be used to destroy passwd 115 4.1.1/100188-01 SunOS 4.1.1: TIOCCONS redirection is a security violation. 116 4.1.1/100192-01 SunOS4.1.1: colormap is not correct when 128 colors are used. Thanks to all those who replied - Petri Ojala, Larry Rogers, Rick Dipper, Tad Guy, Stergios, Mike Raffety -vikas vikas@jvnc.net (609) 258-2403 --------------------------------------------------------------------------