SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 455.00
During the installation of this patch, the lsmsa daemon (lsmsad)
must be stopped. This may be accomplished by issuing the command
"lsmsad -k", while logged in as root.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 1146.00 
This patch delivers version V2.0-094d of the libots3 library.
If your system has the Compaq Fortran Compiler, the Developers Tool Kit (DTK)
(OTABASE subset), or a patch that installs a newer version of this
library, do not apply this patch. If a new revision of the libots3 library
is already installed on your system, and you install this patch, you will
receive an informational message from dupatch. See the Patch Summary and
Release Notes for further information.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 1148.00 
This patch delivers version V2.0-094d of the libots3 library.
If your system has the Compaq Fortran Compiler, the Developers Tool Kit (DTK)
(OTABASE subset), or a patch that installs a newer version of this
library, do not apply this patch. If a new revision of the libots3 library
is already installed on your system, and you install this patch, you will
receive an informational message from dupatch. See the Patch Summary and
Release Notes for further information.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS for Tru64 UNIX Patch 1346.00
This patch is to be installed on a cluster only through using the 
no-roll upgrade process.  If the patch is installed using a rolling 
upgrade process, an entire cluster reboot will be needed.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 1367.00
This patch provides the driver support for a new graphics card. In order
to obtain full support for this graphics card, you must also select
Patch 1023.00, which is the X server portion of the patch.

If you have a system with this graphics card, you will need to reconfigure
and rebuild the kernel after installing this patch.  To do this, boot
genvmunix and run doconfig without the "-c" option to recreate the kernel
configuration file and rebuild the kernel. See the Patch Summary and Release
Notes for further information.

If you are going to remove this patch, please see the Patch Summary
and Release Notes for further information; not doing so may result in
an unusable system.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64UNIX V5.1A Patch 1367.00 
This patch provides a script that will allow a user to remove the
evm patch after the version switch has been thrown by running
clu_upgrade -switch in a cluster environment.  The /usr/sbin/evm_versw_undo
script must be run by root in multiuser mode after the evm patch has been
completely rolled in and before  another rolling upgrade has begun.
PLEASE NOTE: A system or cluster shutdown will be required to remove the
evm patch. Please see the Release Notes and Installation Guide for complete
details.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 1367.00
This patch incorporates the use of two new tunable sysconfig attributes to
the proc subsystem. After the patch is installed, performing the command
'sysconfig -q proc'  will allow one to see these attributes listed as follows:
 
proc:
...
dump_cores = 1
dump_setugid_cores = 0
With this default setting for these tunable attributes, core dumps will still 
be produced by programs, but not by setgid/setuid programs.


SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR Tru64 UNIX V5.1A Patch 1023.00
This patch provides the X server support for a new graphics
card.  In order to obtain full support for this graphic card, you must
also select Patch 1367.00, which is the driver portion of the patch.