HP-UX 11i March 2003 Release Notes

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updated for
September 2001
The following changes are included in Ignite-UX version B.3.4:
• If the DNS domain has been set, the line in the /etc/hosts file for the system being
installed will be written out as:
<IP address><tab><hostname>.<domain> <hostname>
For example:
15.16.17.18 myhost.corp.com myhost
If the DNS domain has not been set, only the hostname without domain is used.
• The add_release command is not supported for the B.11.11 release and beyond.
This command will be completely obsoleted in a future release. Instead of
add_release, you may use the following commands:
# make_depots -d <depot name> -s <source_device>
# make_config -c /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.<XX.YY>/core_cfg -s <depot
name>
# manage_index -a -f /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.<XX.YY>/core_cfg
• The B version of IUX now uses the ndd command to turn off subnet mask checking to
allow for subnet masks such as 255.0.0.0. This is only done when installing HP-UX
11.00 or later.
• Removing volumes when recovering a system from a make_*recovery backup now
correctly results in them being commented out of the /etc/fstab file. This also fixes
a problem where if the /var volume was removed, the /var directory was left
renamed to /var_iux after the system was recovered.
• A manual page for the fix_patches command has been included for the first time.
See the fix_patches (1M) manpage for more information.
• The B version of Ignite-UX no longer supports installing or recovering disk devices
connected to the older PCI Tachyon (A3740A) fibre channel cards. This has been the
case since the B.3.0 release.
updated for
June 2001
The following changes are included in Ignite-UX version B.3.3:
• A sanity check has been added that tests the relationships between memory size,
allocated dump space, and free space in whatever logical volume contains
/var/adm/crash. The check will produce messages if dump space is less than 50
percent of memory, and if the free space for /var/adm/crash is less than the dump
space 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.
The commands make_tape_recovery, make_net_recovery, make_recovery, and
make_sys_image no longer use the -t option to the pax command. In the past, this
option was used so that the “atime” (access modification time) of the files being
backed up was restored. However, a hidden side-effect of this -t option was that it
caused the “ctime” (inode modification time) of files being backed up to change,
which, in turn, triggered security tools 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 way make_recovery used -t in combination
with the -s pax option.