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

• Fixes and improves the mcutil program by correcting how bus resets are handled by the
program and by enhancing its error reporting capabilities.
• Corrects an issue in which multiple access to changer devices (for example, via
Legato/Networker) could lead to a kernel memory fault in the changer driver.
• Fixes problems with DS15 environmental monitoring.
Patch 27038.00
OSFINCLUDE540
• Corrects a problem introduced in Tru64 UNIX V5.1B-2 that causes a syntax error when
compiling programs using the header file /usr/include/netdb.h and defining
_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED.
• Corrects the assert macro definition in /usr/include/assert.h.
• Offers the sticky connection feature for a cluster alias.
• Modifies the getaddinfo to compile properly with the POSIX_SOURCE compiler flag.
• Fixes various problems in the libc functions getdate(), strptime(), callrpc(), strncasecmp()
and fork().
• Fixes a problem in the libnuma function nacreate() and the system header <sgtty.h.
• Fixes various problems in the dbx and object file tools dbx, ostrip, strip, mcs, dis, cord, file,
and stdump.
• Corrects a problem on systems running Enhanced Security in which the command edauth
-R refuses to write user-profile entries to the root partition.
• 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.
• Adds per-binary big page controls to complement the system-wide tunable attributes.
• Fixes an interoperability problem between the curses.h and esnmp.h header files.
• Installs DECthreads V3.20-049.
• Resolves several DECthreads faults and resolves performance issues with certain Java
applications.
Patch 27039.00
OSFINET540
• Provides changes in the bindconfig application (sysman dns) to support BIND 9 version.
• Addresses a formatting error in the output of the tcpdump -r command whereby timestamps
may be displayed as negative numbers.
• Fixes invalid permission and ownership of the /usr/bin/deliver IMAP image.
• Fixes a problem with the TruCluster software product running as a NIS server without
Enhanced Security installed.
• Upgrades BIND 8 to BIND 9.
• Fixes a cyradm memory fault for an improper directory entry in the /etc/imapd.conf file.
• Corrects the cause of RPC timeout error messages in the ypwhich -m command.
• Adds support to decode TCP SACK packets in tcpdump.
• Corrects the decoding of NFSv3 sattr structure in tcpdump.
• Corrects a problem that occurs during a DNS server configuration using the SysMan DNS
server application in which the user is not informed if the named daemon fails to start.
• 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.
• Modifies the prpasswdd and rpc.yppasswdd daemons to properly handle /var/tcb/files on
a file system from different from /var.
• Corrects a problem that can cause the /usr/sbin/pop3d server to generate a segmentation
fault.
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