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1 Introduction

This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' about FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.

Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the ``current errata'' for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.

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2 Security Advisories and Notices

Support for per-user ~/.login_conf files (as documented in login.conf(5)) has been disabled due to incorect merging of local and global settings. This problem will be fixed in future releases.

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3 System Update Information

The handling of some types of comments in printcap(5) files is faulty. If a comment line ends in :\ (the characters normally used to indicate the continuation of a printer definition), the line following the comment will be parsed as a part of the previous printer definition.