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

• Corrects a condition in which a user would receive a protocol-handshake error when a high
priority binlog event is reported via an email message. (The problem is caused by EVM's
use of DECevent to translate the binlog event, which requires the HOME environment
variable to be set.)
• Corrects the behavior of munlockall in the realtime library (librt).
• Corrects a condition that causes a panic resulting from a kernel memory fault in
access_invalidate.
• Corrects a problem in mount or domain activation after a panic, where a fileset (domain)
cannot be mounted without running fixfdmn.
• Corrects a setld security issue in relation to SSRT 3471.
• Causes environmental monitoring on Alpha Server ES47/ES80/GS1280 systems to be turned
on by default.
• Corrects problem of excessive swapping resulting from mfs file system creation.
• Fixes a problem with mkcdsl not carrying the sticky bit through.
• Fixes a problem to allow the class scheduler to handle processor sets (partitions) with an ID
greater than 100 when attempting to set the partition (using the setup subcommand). The
error message generated by the problem is "invalid partition specified."
• Fixes a ksh memory fault problem that occurs when logging in.
• Corrects a problem on systems running Enhanced Security in which the command edauth
-R refuses to write user-profile entries to the root partition.
• Corrects problems with name resolution when an error is encountered during the processing
of the local host files.
• Fixes a fatal error in /usr/bin/spike.
• Allows the Event Manager daemon, evmd, to stop listening on its default TCP port 619. This
capability is not available for clustered systems.
• Corrects a problem that occurs when using C1crypt for password encryption on Enhanced
Security systems in which users are unable to change their passwords and see the passwd
command warning "Password not changed: failed to write protected password entry."
• Corrects the output of the vmstat command with per-RAD kernel usage data.
• Fixes problems such as segmentation faults when strxfrm() function runs on the French
locales.
• Fixes setld failures that generate the message "Kerberos credentials not found."
• Improves null partition checking code.
• Fixes a librt memory leak that may occur when multiple message queue files are opened
and then closed (the memory would be recovered when the process terminates).
• Changes the use of the configuration file /etc/svc.conf to /etc/nsswitch.conf to allow netgroup
data to be provided from LDAP, rather than only from NIS.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability that can result in a local Denial of Service (DoS).
• Addresses the rarely seen class scheduler error “class_daemon: class_open: Database created
with default configuration Bad file number.”
• Fixes the pattern substitution problem in ksh with respect to the patterns ${parameter#pattern}
and ${parameter%pattern}.
• Adds per-binary big page controls to complement the system-wide tunable attributes.
• Updates the audit_tool usage message.
• Fixes a performance problem in the libc mktime() routine.
• Fixes a condition that causes segmentation faults when the nm -a command is used to dump
symbol information in object files compiled by the C++ compiler.
• Fixes the dircmp to display both output columns.
• Fixes a condition that causes cfgmgr to continue running after the remote is gone.
86 Tru64 UNIX Patches