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

— Enables acctcom to read more than one input file.
— Enables acctcom to work with pipes.
• Fixes the acctcom command with respect to the display of tty lines.
• Corrects a problem in which accounting reports show the wrong connection time for the
users who remain logged in during the execution of runacct.
• Enables the acctcon1 command to calculate the connect time for local logins in case of run
level changes.
Patch 27002.00
OSFADVFS540
• Corrects the following problems with the fixfdmn utility:
— Fixes fixfdmn so that it will continue when it finds more than one root tag file, rather
than exiting with the message “Unable to continue, more than one root tag file.”
— Fixes a potential memory fault while running the fixfdmn.
— Fixes a problem in which fixfdmn does not properly handle domains with multi-page
RBMT files.
• Fixes the incorrect number of tag pages being returned by some AdvFS user commands.
• Fixes vrestore command to restore file and directory attributes by default and addresses
security issues during the restoration of those attributes.
• Removes memory leaks from the AdvFS salvage utility.
• Fixes rare problem in which the vdump/vrestore commands hang when requesting the next
tape.
• Enhances the AdvFS rmvol utility to allow multiple volumes to be removed with one
command.
• Fixes a problem that causes the defragment command to fail with the error message
"“defragment: Can't allocate memory”
• Corrects return values from the vfast utility.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances, system
integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file access.
• Provides enhancements for file system suitlets.
• Improves AdvFS informational messages as follows:
— Advscan reports if a domain has all of its volumes, but they are stored in a different
directories. This scenario will cause mount to fail.
— The AdvFS I/O error message includes the location of a file that will help users to
translate the error number into an error message.
• Prevents erroneous display of DMAPI messages while using the showfile command.
• Fixes a problem in which the verify utility core dumps if it encounters a specific type of
metadata inconsistency.
• Improves the information provided in an error message that is displayed when the chfile
command to display an informative error message if it fails while trying to enable data
logging.
• Modifies the nvbmtpg utility to display all the data in a specified mcell only if the -v option
is selected.
• Fixes a problem where defragmentation can fail if the process can not obtain enough memory.
• Provides support for Smart Array disk controllers. Without this patch, if the Smart Array
product is installed on the system, the SysMan Station hardware view will fail to operate.
• Corrects the error message returned when trying to migrate striped files when the -s option
is omitted.
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