PROBLEM: (82038) (PATCH ID: OSF510-003) ******** When a user tries to dump to a regular file he would get an error message stating that "dump: IO control failed for `output_file`" . See example given below. # dump 0f /usr/tmp/mnt.dump /mnt dump: Dumping from host idcssu dump: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Sep 6 10:14:34 2000 EDT dump: Date of last level dump: the start of the epoch dump: Dumping /dev/rdisk/dsk5a (/mnt) to /usr/tmp/mnt.dump dump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files] dump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories] dump: IO control failed for /usr/tmp/mnt.dump. dump: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") no dump: SIGTERM received dump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted dump: SIGTERM received dump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted PROBLEM: (85030, 86830, 86926, HPAQ3220N) (PATCH ID: OSF510-289) ******** Using the command rdump to back up data on a remote host would result in a core dump. Here is an example of the output that is produced when using the unpatched rdump utility: # rdump -f root@unos:/dev/disk/dsk1c /dev/disk/floppy0c rdump: Dumping from host animal.zk3.dec.com rdump: Date of this level 9 dump: Wed Jun 27 14:46:30 2001 EDT rdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch rdump: Dumping /dev/disk/floppy0c to /dev/disk/dsk1c on host unos rdump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files] rdump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories] rdump: SIGSEGV received -- ABORTING! rdump: Child 1188 returns low-byte status 206 PROBLEM: (91284) (PATCH ID: OSF510-534) ******** Now rdump command dumps data properly onto remote tape devices without receiving the signal SIGSEGV and dumping core.