HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1.B-4 Patch Summary and Release Notes (13156)

• Fixes the fwtmp command so it does not display invalid (negative) PIDs when the number
of decimal digits of PID value exceeds 5.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances, system
integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege
management.
• Corrects an error in the script in lastlogin.sh.
• Makes start up scripts in /sbin/init.d world readable.
• Corrects the following problems found in accounting commands:
— Resolves the differences in the CPU time and connect time found during the conversion
of accounting reports from ASCII format to binary and again back to ASCII.
— Resolves the differences in CPU time found in the output of the acctcom and acctmerg
commands for the same input file.
— Fixes the way accounting files are referenced using CDSLs.
— Corrects the display of the header from acctcom when accounting is first started.
— Corrects an error message during execution of the runacct command.
— 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.
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• 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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