Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notice (SSRN)
For SPECTRUM 6.6 with Service Pack 2 CD release
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Document 5135
Installation
Location Server
Corrected Issues: Installation
Item Problem Resolution
1 Installation crashed when the Install
User Name exceeded the limit (20
characters for a username on NT, not
including the domain and 64 characters
for Solaris).
This was resolved by increasing the
maximum length allowed for User Name.
2 Patches were intermittently failing when
unzipping vtapes.
This was resolved by replacing
gzip |
newtar
with a version of newtar that
handles gzip compression internally.
Corrected Issues: Location Server
Item Problem Resolution
1User's
.hostrc files contained only +
and the server
.hostrc had host names
that could not be resolved by dns. When
reading the
.hostrc file, each entry
was validated (that is, tested to be sure
that the machine exists) by SPECTRUM.
In the case of machines which were
either down or non-existent, the
validation timed out. When there were a
number of non-existent machines, this
timeout was repeated for each one.
These timeouts could add up to a
significant delay in starting applications
which use the .
hostrc file.
This was resolved by ensuring that
processd checks to see if the .hostrc
file has been changed (by using
stat())
before re-reading it.