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- DONE Athena machines have filesystem-level access to AFS.
- Athena machines periodically clean up files in temporary areas to avoid slowly filling the disk.
- Athena machines automatically take updates when we put out new releases.
- DONE Athena machines have a consistent set of native platform packages installed, which is a superset of the default package set.
- Athena machines can be flagged as "public", which implies that they have no persistent data or customizations and can engage in more aggressive cleanup activities.
- DONE The default GNOME panel setup contains a menu of important Athena locker software (currently unmaintained). For performance reasons, the files representing this menu must be stored on local disk.
- DESUPPORT Some lockers containing frequently-used software are stored on local disk for performance reasons.
- Cluster machines perform some self-integrity checking to repair accidental and casual changes to their configurations.
- Athena machines may be part of a Hesiod "cluster" which can determine whether they take beta updates, whether they are cluster/quickstation machines, and what their default printers are.
- Particular aspects of Athena machines can be configured by editing /etc/athena/rc.conf.
- DESUPPORT Cluster machines use static IP addresses and have an easy procedure for changing IP addresses when they are moved to different subnets.
- DESUPPORT Cluster machines run a local name server and are configured to use it to cache name lookup results.
- DESUPPORT Admins can enable various nework services with the "mkserv" command; the most popular of these is "mkserv remote" to permanently enable remote access daemons.
- Athena machines almost always have the correct time as determined by time.mit.edu.
- DESUPPORT Athena machines automatically synchronize the hardware clock following Daylight Savings Time changes.
- DONE Athena users receive messages of the day prior to logging in (the gmotd) and upon logging in (the motd) and can also be sent personalized system messages upon logging in about things like impending account cancellations (lert).
- DONE Users can submit bug reports to the appropriate channel using the sendbug command.
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Planned solution: No change. The script badly needs to be rewritten to use modern tools, but that is neither trivial nor relevant to the Athena 10 goals.
Status: Sendbug needs to be repackaged.Milestone: Basic (two hours)Done.
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Feature: /usr/sbin/sendmail is configured to inject mail through outgoing.mit.edu and to use Kerberos authentication if the user has valid tickets. The sendmail queue is flushed once an hour in case mail has to be queued locally.
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