HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-6 Patch Summary and Release Notes

• Provides an enhanced version of the rm command that fixes a problem with VMS NFS
mounts in which many files are not deleted because of shuffling effects in the file system.
• Fixes a timestamp problem with binlogd
• Fixes an issue with setld/pax.
• Fixes a memory fault or segmentation fault problem that occurs when a root user tries to
change a NIS user's password on the NIS master that is using BASE security.
• Corrects a problem with the Bourne shell not displaying the trailing slash at the end of a file
name that is passed as an argument to the script that displays the argument passed.
• Fixes a problem in which software can not be installed due to subsets remaining in an
unfinished state of subset loading.
• Corrects a csh globbing problem that occurs while listing files using the asterisk (*) wild
card character.
• Fixes a problem with the sh shell during command substitution.
• Fixes the problem of depord failing when the length of the DEPS field in the control file is
greater than 250.
• Fixes quotacheck utility to handle user/group IDs larger than 2^31.
• Fixes the auditlogtrim script to properly recognize and delete audit log files older than the
trimming date/time specified.
• Ensures that the disklabel -z option (used for zeroing out a disk label) issues a warning if
the disk partition is in use when a shell environment variable DISK_ZERO_WARN is set
• Corrects an overlapping section error reported by the linker.
• Fixes bad error handling that occurs when trying to install setld via the command line options
setld -l <path <subset.
• Corrects a memory leak problem in the ksh shell.
• Corrects bind changes to rc.config changing NIS settings.
• Fixes a problem that results in a hang or crash during the auditing of the net_tcp_stray_packet,
net_udp_stray_packet, and net_tcp_rejected_conn network events .
• Fixes and audit object deselection model in which events that modify a target object could
be deselected, resulting in no audit record being generated.
• Improves the performance of times(3).
• Corrects incorrect behavior of the df command for automount mount points.
• Corrects a memory leak problem in the ksh shell.
• Enhances the fuser command to provide a cluster-wide query capability. A revised fuser(8)
reference page describes this enhancement.
• Fixes a problem with glob() returning an incorrect match when directory permission issues
exist.
• Corrects a condition that occurs when a change in system time by the ntp daemon causes a
cron job to be executed with a discrepancy equal to the amount of drift in time.
• Corrects the behavior of the tail -f command with respect to FIFO special files.
• Corrects a problem with ksh shell pattern matching.
• Fixes problem that occurs when multiple instances of the sort utility use the same directory
path.
• Resolves several DECThreads faults and resolves performance issues with certain Java
applications.
• fixes memory leak problem in cron.
• Raises the highest ID handled by edquota and repquota and converts the repquota program
to using the GETQUOTA/GETQUOTA64 quotactl's for obtaining data, instead of directly
reading from the quota file. This results in more recent data and, in a cluster, consistent data
across all nodes. It also enables handling the highest UIDs (up to 4294967294).
Summary of Base Operating System Patches 89