Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)
Managing Problems
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Gathering Version Information About OSS Files
When a problem occurs with an executable file, the method you use to obtain product-
version information depends on the kind of file involved.The possible methods are:
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For a product with a Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) module, such as the OSS
Monitor, you can use the SCF VERSION SUBSYS, VERSION MON, and
VERSION PROCESS Commands on page 12-86.
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For other files, you can use the Guardian VPROC utility.
VPROC is the primary tool for gathering product-version information about an
executable file. VPROC and its use in the Guardian environment are completely
described in the Guardian User’s Guide. VPROC can also be used from the OSS shell
through the vproc command or the gtacl command.
For example, to obtain information about an OSS-related file in the Guardian file
system such as the PINSTALL utility, you can enter the following OSS command:
vproc /G/SYSTEM/ZOSS/PINSTALL
That command produces a display similar to the following:
VPROC-T9617D31-(14 APR 95) SYSTEM \NODE Date 18 DEC 1995, 12:12:45
COPYRIGHT TANDEM COMPUTERS INCORPORATED 1986 - 1995
/G/SYSTEM/ZOSS/PINSTALL
Binder timestamp: 17MAR95 15:38:44
Version procedure: T8626D30_26MAY95_OSSUTL_AAB
Target CPU: UNSPECIFIED
AXCEL timestamp: 17MAR95 15:39:02
For help with interpreting the information in VPROC displays, see the vproc(1)
reference page either online or in the Open System Services Shell and Utilities
Reference Manual.
To use the vproc command, you must first know the location of the file for which you
want information. To locate a Guardian file, follow the procedure in the Guardian User’s
Guide. To locate an OSS file, use the find command. (You can also use the whence
or type command to find a file if you are interested only in those files accessible
through your PATH environment variable values.)
For example, to determine the location of the OSS shell file itself (sh) and then display
the product-version information for that file, enter:
find / -name sh -W NOE -W NOG
This command returns:
find:
.
.
.
/bin/sh
Next, enter the following gtacl command to use the Guardian VPROC utility directly:
gtacl -p vproc '/bin/sh'