03/17/95 Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before SPECIAL NOTICES Information in this document is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of this writing. Please send feedback by fax to "AIXServ Information" at (512) 823-4009. Please use this information with care. IBM will not be responsible for damages of any kind resulting from its use. The use of this information is the sole responsibility of the customer and depends on the customer's ability to eval- uate and integrate this information into the customer's operational environment. | INTRODUCTION | This document lists known commands-related defects that | occurred in AIX level 3.2.3e or earlier. | All of the defects listed have been fixed in AIX 3.2.5 and | the fixes are included in the AIX 3250 PMP tape. | If you do not wish to upgrade to AIX 3.2.5, there are also | down-level PTFs (program temporary fixes) available. When | you install these PTFs, your system will remain at its | current level. | Fixes can be ordered by specific fix number from | 1-800-CALL-AIX. SMIT bos.obj.smit Fixes a problem in the ASCII version of smit in which mksysb hangs when it should be prompting for a second tape. IX25528 X11rte.ext.obj.msmit Fixes a problem in the Motif version of smit in which mksysb hangs when it should be prompting for a second tape. IX26135 bos.obj.arch Fixes the problem in which smit forces the use of the pack option (-p) to back up a file system. Now allows choice of packing or not. Message: "0511-317 Internal packing error". IX31390 Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before 1 03/17/95 TAR bos.obj.arch Fixes the tar end-of-tape problem. IX27614 Allows smit to recover if the the user inserts a write- protected tape in the middle of a multi-tape backup sequence. IX28629 Fixes the problem in which tar cannot handle files with userids larger than 65535. IX26590 PAX bos.obj.arch Fixes the problem with the pax command when restoring from a mksysb tape. If the /etc/password file had not been restored yet, any files that had an owner not in /etc/password (all of them until the passwd file was restored) had the owner set to root. IX30655 BACKUP/RESTORE bos.obj.arch Fix to allow the restore command to read tapes made with the backup command using a 0 block size. IX31994 Fixes the problem when backup by name is run from a cron file and requires a second tape. This will force backup to terminate with an error instead of overwriting the first tape. IX23371 Fixes the problem when backup by inode is run from a cron file and requires a second tape. It will get a resource temporarily not available because is cannot open /dev/tty. IX31715 CPIO bos.obj.arch Fixes the problem in which cpio will terminate when it encounters an error while reading the backup media. IX24164 DD Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before 2 03/17/95 bos.obj.arch Fixes the dd problem in which there is an extra character in the buffer. Fixes the out-of-space problem. IX38287 TCTL bos.obj.arch Latest version of tctl/mt. MKSYSB bos.obj.smit Fixes a problem in the ASCII version of smit in which mksysb hangs when it should be prompting for a second tape. IX25528 X11rte.ext.obj.msmit Fixes a problem in the Motif version of smit in which mksysb hangs when it should be prompting for a second tape. IX26135 bos.obj.bosboot Fixes the problem in which mksysb gives the error: "./etc/stanzas/sccdrom.add file does not exist." IX31081 bos.obj.bosinst This is the latest revision of the mksysb script. IX31709 Fixes a problem in mksysb on a system with more than 200 devices. The problem was that a portion of the devices was dropped due to a Korn shell array limition. IX29813 Fixes the mksysb restore to use the original file modifica- tion times if you are restoring from a mksysb. If you are doing a new install, it uses today's date. IX27743 bos.obj.arch Fixes the problem with the pax command when restoring from a mksysb tape. If the /etc/password file had not been restored yet, any files that had an owner not in /etc/password (all of them until the passwd file was restored) had the owner set to root. IX30655 Fixes the tar end-of-tape problem. IX27614 Allows smit to recover if the the user inserts a write- protected tape in the middle of a multi-tape backup sequence. IX27629 Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before 3 03/17/95 Fixes the problem in which tar cannot handle files with userids larger than 65535. IX26590 BACKUP/RESTORE bosadt.lib.obj.include Fixes the problem in which backup cannot handle files with pathnames over 100 characters and restore will not restore files with a pathname over 100 characters. IX30432 DEVICE DRIVERS bos.obj.dd Fixes the problem created by U407435. The problem was that QIC-120 format tapes were not readable by the 525M and 1.2G tape drives. Fixes the problem with the tape drive ignoring Ctrl-C. This problem prevented any signal from interrupting the tape drive. Fixes the problem with the density setting not being change- able on the 9-track tape drive. Needed along with 3.2.3 to use the 4mm tape drive. Fixes the problem in which backup by inode leaves several backbyinode processes in the process table. IX24854 5GB tape, data compression. This is in 3.2.3 extended. 5GB tape, SCSI II support. This is in 3.2.3 extended. Adds the 7207-011 (525 MB) tape drive to the smit tape screen. Allows it to be defined as an IBM drive instead of ost. It also allows you to turn off the retension option. bos.obj.bosboot 5GB tape, SCSI II support. This is in 3.2.3 extended. bos.obj.cmd-fs Latest version of CD-ROM device driver. SHUTDOWN bos.obj.cmd-cntl Latest version of shutdown script. Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before 4 03/17/95 TCP CLEAN bosnet.tcpip.obj.client Latest version of tcp.clean script. CSH OR "C" SHELL bosext1.csh.obj.csh This provides a system-wide startup file for all csh users. The csh c shell executes commands placed in this file before executing the files in the user's directory. /etc/csh.cshrc /etc/csh.login IX26088 KSH OR "K" SHELL bos.obj.ksh Latest version of ksh. PCSIM pcsim.obj.pcsim Latest version of pcsim. DOS UTILITIES bosext2.dosutil.obj.dosutil dosformat, dosdir, dosdel, dosread, and doswrite. CRON/AT bos.obj.cron Latest version of cron. Fixes the problem with "at" jobs not running when scheduled. IX38376 VI bos.obj.vi Latest version of vi. Commands-Related Fixes for AIX 3.2.3e and Before 5 03/17/95 CD-ROM bos.obj.cmd-fs Latest version of CD-ROM device driver. LS bos.obj.cmd-file This fixes the problem with "ls -l" core dumping with more than MAX_CACHE (255) owners. 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