HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Installation
Ignite-UX Changes (updated for June 2001)
Chapter 6128
allocated. The check, at worst, produces warnings which can be
ignored, and installations are allowed to proceed.
• File mtime, ctime, and atime behaviors have changed in the
recovery commands. make_tape_recovery, make_net_recovery,
make_recovery, and make_sys_image no longer use the -t option
to the pax command. This option was being used so that the "atime"
(access modification time) of the the files being backed up were
restored. However a hidden side effect of this -t option was that it
caused the the "ctime" (inode modification time) of files being backed
up to change. The ctime change triggers tools that do security checks
to raise an alarm. Another side effect of the -t option also caused the
mtime (modification time) of /etc/passwd and /etc/group to be
changed due to the waymake_recovery used -t in combination with
the -s pax option.
• Device files for drivers that use dynamic major numbers are now
modified to track any changes to the dynamic major assignments that
may occur during the installation or recovery of a system. Prior to
this change, some products (such as X.25 and EMS) may not work
correctly after recovering a system, or when installing a system from
an archive image. For this change to work, the OS archive image
must contain the /stand/ioconfig file from the original system. To
take advantage of this change, you will need to recreate old OS
archive images with the new make_sys_image script that includes
/stand/ioconfig in the archive.
• The make_sys_image command no longer retrieves variable values
from the /tmp/install.vars or
/var/opt/ignite/local/host.info files. A UID larger than 64K
on an automount directory will no longer cause the contents of the
automounted directory to be backed up as if it were a directory on the
local disk or volume group. If a mount is detected as stale, the system
will now issue a WARNING and continue the traversal of the volumes
and disks that need to be recovered and put them in the archive
image.
• When recovering systems that use Auto Port Aggregation Software
(APA) installation, Ignite-UX no longer comments out the Internet
Configuration parameters for lan aggregates in the
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf file. If the recovery is done over the
network, you will need to specify that the networking parameters are
temporary for the system to come up on the lan aggregate interface.