HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the September 2004 Release?
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• OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d: A self-signed host certificate is automatically generated
while installing OpenSSL.
• PAM: 64-bit framework now supported on both PA-RISC and Itanium-based
systems. New PAM module introduced. Defect fixes included.
• PAM-Kerberos v1.23: Supports both Itanium-based and PA-RISC applications in
32-bit mode and 64-bit mode. The pam_sm_acct_mgmt() function returns
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN instead of PAM_SUCCESS when the user is not present in the
kerberos database.
• Security Patch Check 2.0: New product for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.
• Shadow Passwords: New feature enhances system security by hiding user-encrypted
passwords in a shadow password file. Now supported by SAM.
What is New in
September 2004
for Customers
Migrating from
HP-UX 11i v1
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls”
•The execve[*]() system calls: Beginning with HP-UX 11i v1.6, the kernel ignores
setuid and setgid bits on scripts for security reasons. In addition, buffer overflow
protection is now enabled.
•The fuser Command: Performance improved.
•The insf, lssf, and mksf Commands: Now support IHV drivers.
•The mmap() Function: Now possible to perform mappings between a process's
address space and I/O device registers or memory.
•The olrad Command: The rad (1M) command replaced by the more robust olrad
(1M) command.
• Post/Wait: New. Provides a fast, lightweight synchronization facility for user
applications.
•The ps command: The default width is now set to 128 characters and a default file
has been provided to define the length of the command field, which can be between
64-1020.
•The rc Shell Script: When a system needs reboot for some reason, messages in the
file /etc/rc.bootmsg will be displayed before the system is rebooted.
•The scsimgr and scsiscan Commands: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in
HP-UX 11i v3.
•The settune and settune_txn System Calls: Post HP-UX 11i v2, tunables set using
these kernel system calls will not be persistent across reboots.
•The sfd Daemon: Deprecated. Planned for obsolescence in HP-UX 11i v3.
•The sysdef command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable
parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem.
What is New in
September 2004
for Customers
Migrating from
HP-UX 11i v1
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming”
• Absolute Debugger (adb): Improved program includes support shared library,
threads, multiprocessor dump reading, 64-bit DLKM dump reading, among others.
Also includes improved command-line syntax, enhanced capabilities in expressions
and format strings, and better file searching and writing capability, among others.
• HP aC++ Compiler for PA-RISC A.03.55.02: Includes numerous new features for
customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1.