HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

Installation
Ignite-UX Changes (updated for June 2001)
Chapter 6
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Since Ignite-UX server support for HP-UX B.10.01 and B.10.10 has been obsoleted, this
functionality will be removed from your system upon updating Ignite-UX to the 11i
version. If you wish to continue serving B.10.01 and B.10.10 clients, you should set up a
separate Ignite-UX server with version B.2.5.136.
Additional information regarding Ignite-UX is described earlier under “Workstation
Tuned Kernel Parameters” on page 53.
Documentation
The Ignite-UX Administration Guide has been updated for HP-UX 11i, and is available
on the HP-UX Instant Information CD and on the http://docs.hp.com/ web site.
Another excellent source of information on Ignite-UX is the external web site:
http://software.hp.com/products/IUX/
Ignite-UX Changes for June 2001
• 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.
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 way make_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 andput
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