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- Since I first put MCP in the backlog, two patches arrived. I applied
- them to the source before sending it out on mod.sources on Feburary 6.
- Here is the header from the two patch files, describing the changes
- they made.
- /Rich $alz, moderator
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-
- This patch (#1) makes the following changes in the MCP 1.0 distribution.
-
- 1) Fixed bug in update-user command. Mcp would sometimes
- segmentation fault or update the wrong user's attributes
- iff changing the login name and any other attribute
- simultaneously. (thanx to tadguy@odu.edu)
-
- 2) Fixed a misfeature in update-user. When changing a user's home
- directory to a directory that already exists, mcp would ask an
- ambiguous and unnecessary question.
-
- 3) Fixed bug in accessing the /usr/adm/lastlog. Users with no
- corresponding record in /usr/adm/lastlog (uid too high) were
- listed with ridiculous last login times.
-
- 4) Fixed mcp startup diagnostic bug. If mcp was taking its input from
- a pipe, it would report that it was reading from a pipe AND a file.
-
- 5) A -v command line option (prints the version and patchlevel)
- has been added and the mcp manual page has been updated to
- reflect this.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This patch (#2) makes the following changes in the MCP 1.0 distribution.
- This patch will not work if patch #1 has not been applied.
-
- 1) Mcp now will compile if SENDMAIL is not defined. (oops?)
- 2) Fixes message function call with incorrect number of args in upduser.
- 3) Mcp nows looks to see if the home directory exists before
- asking whether you want to remove it.
- 4) Fixes misfeature when setting the expiration date of classes and
- sigs that were originally set to never expire.
- 5) Adds showtag()/erasetag() goodies (developed for an independent tenex
- library) to mcp's completion routines.
- 6) Fixes a couple of typos in the load-file help page.
- 7) Added documentation for a subtle feature concerning the group
- ownership of newly created home directories.
-
- kyle jones, odu computer science
- ARPA: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu CSNET: kyle@odu.csnet
- UUCP: kyle@xanth.uucp
-