| Title and Copyright Pages |
| About This Manual |
| Audience |
| Organization |
| Related Documents |
| Reader's Comments |
| Conventions |
| 1 | New and Changed Features |
| 1.1 | New Hardware Support |
| 1.2 | Support for Fibre Channel Based Storage |
| 1.3 | Logical Partitions for AlphaServer GS140 System |
| 1.4 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| 1.5 | ATM PACING VC Bandwidth Accounting Change |
| 1.6 | Extensions to atom's Programmable Interfaces |
| 1.7 | Ability to Examine the Stack of a User Program that Caused a Kernel Crash Dump |
| 1.8 | Compaq Analyze Utility |
| 1.9 | Secure Version of syslog |
| 1.10 | Changes to VFS and AdvFS Tunable Attributes |
| 1.11 | Visual Threads |
| 1.12 | Bootable Tape Enhancements |
| 1.13 | Compaq Advanced Printing Software |
| 1.14 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.5 |
| 1.15 | Compaq Insight Manager |
| 1.16 | Support for Universal Serial Bus Keyboards and Mice |
| 1.17 | AltaVista Search on Documentation CD-ROM |
| 1.18 | Support for Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) |
| 1.19 | Availability of COM for Tru64 UNIX |
| 2 | Installation Notes |
| 2.1 | Update Installation |
| 2.1.1 | Recovering from Boot Problems After Update Installation |
| 2.2 | Installation Problems Using Console Device EWE0 |
| 2.3 | Join Database Migration |
| 3 | Processor-Specific Notes |
| 3.1 | General Notes on Processors |
| 3.1.1 | Upgrading Your Hardware |
| 3.1.2 | PCI-Based Systems with ATI Mach64 Graphics Controllers |
| 3.1.3 | PCI Shared Interrupt Support |
| 3.1.4 | KZPSA Behind the PCI-to-PCI Bridge |
| 3.1.5 | Qlogic ISP1040B CAM Errors |
| 3.1.6 | DJ-ML200-xx PCI NVRAM Hardware Rev Must Be E01 |
| 3.1.7 | RIS boot Options |
| 3.2 | Personal Workstation 433au, 500au, and 600au Systems |
| 3.2.1 | EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM Support |
| 3.2.2 | 64-Bit PCI Option Cards |
| 3.2.3 | Incorrect Default Keyboard Mappings |
| 3.3 | AlphaServer 1000 and 1000A Systems |
| 3.3.1 | EISA Configuration Utility Diskette Version 1.10 |
| 3.3.2 | Graphics Resolution |
| 3.4 | AlphaServer 8200, 8400, GS60 and GS140 Systems |
| 3.4.1 | Minimum Firmware Requirements |
| 3.5 | Alpha VME 4/224, 4/288, and 5/nnn Single-Board Computers |
| 3.5.1 | Verify CPU Version |
| 3.5.2 | Firmware Requirements |
| 3.5.3 | Restrictions and Known Problems |
| 3.5.3.1 | Byte Addressability Not Supported by mmap (5/nnn Only) |
| 3.5.3.2 | VME Autovectors |
| 3.5.3.3 | Network Port Termination |
| 3.5.4 | Writing VMEbus Device Drivers |
| 3.5.5 | CPU Boards Cannot Be Installed Until Operating System Is Installed |
| 3.5.6 | Futurebus Backplane Is Not Supported |
| 3.6 | DMCC EBM2n and EBM4n Class Single Board Computers |
| 3.6.1 | Verify CPU Version |
| 3.6.2 | Firmware Requirements |
| 3.6.3 | Restrictions and Known Problems |
| 3.6.3.1 | Option Card Restrictions |
| 3.6.3.2 | PBXGB-AA (TGA2 PowerStorm 3D30) Video Card Restrictions |
| 3.6.3.3 | General Restrictions |
| 3.6.4 | Hardware Configuration for DMCC Eight-Headed Graphics Systems |
| 3.6.4.1 | Hardware and Software Requirements |
| 3.6.4.2 | Hardware Setup |
| 3.6.4.3 | Software Setup |
| 3.7 | AXPvme Single Board Computers |
| 3.7.1 | Firmware Upgrade Required |
| 3.7.2 | Unpredictable Results When Performing Master Block Transfers |
| 3.8 | DEC 7000 System |
| 3.8.1 | Misleading Error Message Displayed During Installation |
| 3.9 | AlphaPC 164 Systems |
| 4 | Base System Software Notes |
| 4.1 | Commands and Utilities |
| 4.1.1 | Escaped Comment Symbols in a Makefile |
| 4.1.2 | Security |
| 4.1.2.1 | Unexpected Command Behavior with ACLs |
| 4.1.2.2 | ACLs and Archive Tools |
| 4.1.3 | Emacs Can Lose ACL File Settings |
| 4.1.4 | Some Emacs Command Line Options Fail |
| 4.1.5 | New Tunable Parameter for Running Oracle8 |
| 4.1.6 | Change to Format of ipcs Command |
| 4.1.7 | Sendmail |
| 4.1.7.1 | New sendmail Version 8.8.8 |
| 4.1.7.2 | Initial sendmail Configuration |
| 4.1.7.3 | Warning Message When sendmail Updates the alias Database |
| 4.1.7.4 | Mail to user@localhost Fails |
| 4.1.8 | The tar Command h Option Does Not Work As Documented |
| 4.1.9 | Netscape Communicator |
| 4.1.9.1 | Netscape Communicator Dumps Core Running in CDE |
| 4.1.9.2 | Netscape Communicator Core Dumps If mailto: Link Is Selected In a Web Page |
| 4.1.9.3 | Deleting Multiple Mail Messages Causes Netscape Communicator to Core Dump |
| 4.1.9.4 | Netscape Communicator Dumps Core Intermittently |
| 4.1.9.5 | Cannot Delete Mail Messages From Inbox to Trash When Using IMAP Server |
| 4.1.9.6 | Communicator Returns sh: /usr/bin/X11/showps: not found |
| 4.1.9.7 | Installing Open3D Causes Netscape Communicator to Core Dump |
| 4.1.9.8 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.5 Form Handling Problem in Asian Locales |
| 4.1.10 | Do Not Use Current Directory Character with setld |
| 4.2 | SysMan System Management Graphical User Interface |
| 4.2.1 | Account Manager |
| 4.2.1.1 | Copying Accounts and UID |
| 4.2.1.2 | Account Manager Restrictions |
| 4.2.1.3 | Account Manager Problems |
| 4.2.1.4 | Enhanced Security Account Manager Problems |
| 4.2.2 | BIND Configuration |
| 4.2.3 | The dxshutdown Application Does Not Prohibit Logins |
| 4.3 | System Administration |
| 4.3.1 | License Management Facility Allows Year 2000 Testing |
| 4.3.2 | EISA Configuration Utility Revision Requirements |
| 4.3.3 | Open3D Support |
| 4.3.4 | Opening a Write-Protected Tape in Write Mode |
| 4.3.5 | Restrictions for a Dataless Environment |
| 4.3.6 | Alternate Root Installation May Change Host File Dates |
| 4.3.7 | Enhanced Security |
| 4.3.7.1 | Distribution of Enhanced Security Profiles via NIS |
| 4.3.7.2 | Disaster Recovery |
| 4.3.7.3 | The pw_id_map and gr_id_map Files Are Obsolete |
| 4.3.7.4 | Behavior of useradd, usermod, and userdel Commands |
| 4.3.8 | Enabling Extended UIDs in the Kernel |
| 4.3.9 | Insight Manager Agents |
| 4.3.9.1 | Installation |
| 4.3.9.2 | Starting and Stopping the Insight Manager Daemons |
| 4.3.9.3 | How to Monitor the Tru64 UNIX Managed System |
| 4.3.9.4 | Browser Requirements and Security |
| 4.3.9.5 | Security Access |
| 4.3.9.6 | Known Problems |
| 4.3.10 | Startup Messages Lost in Large Configurations |
| 4.3.11 | Incoming Remote Print Jobs Disable Queue If They Create spooldir Lock File |
| 4.3.12 | The lpstat Command Fails |
| 4.3.13 | The Alias Name Field Is Empty in the Disk Configuration |
| 4.3.14 | Problems when Trying to Mount DVD-ROM |
| 4.4 | Network and Communications |
| 4.4.1 | IP Switching over ATM |
| 4.4.2 | Changes to ATM syslog Messages |
| 4.4.3 | Edit the /etc/hosts File After Running netsetup |
| 4.4.4 | CDE's Static Dependency on the Network |
| 4.4.5 | Support for NetRAIN Network Interface |
| 4.4.6 | NetRAIN Interface Configuration Change |
| 4.4.7 | Network Services Fail to Start with NetRAIN Interface |
| 4.4.8 | LAT and NetRAIN |
| 4.4.9 | NetRAIN and Microsoft Windows NT Clients |
| 4.4.10 | Sender Address Problem When Using DECnet Mail |
| 4.4.11 | DHCP Database Migration (joind and bootpd) |
| 4.4.12 | TCP Timestamp and Selective Acknowledgement Support |
| 4.4.13 | Latent Support for Multiple Network Adapters in a Subnet |
| 4.5 | Local Area Transport |
| 4.5.1 | Duplicate Minor Numbers and latsetup |
| 4.5.2 | CTRL/A Causes LAT tty to Change the Case of Characters |
| 4.5.3 | Simultaneous llogin Connections |
| 4.5.4 | LAT Interactions with NetRAIN |
| 4.6 | File Systems |
| 4.6.1 | The newfs Command No Longer Searches disktab File |
| 4.6.2 | Using ACLs over NFS |
| 4.6.3 | ACL Size Limitations |
| 4.6.4 | Advanced File System (AdvFS) |
| 4.6.4.1 | AdvFS and fsync() |
| 4.6.4.2 | Reusing AdvFS Partitions |
| 4.6.4.3 | Disk Usage Information |
| 4.6.4.4 | Cleanly Unmount File Systems Before Changing Operating System Versions |
| 4.6.4.5 | Running Verify on AdvFS File Systems |
| 4.6.4.6 | The vdump Utility Requires Two kill Signals |
| 4.6.4.7 | Verify Fails on Dual-Mounted Domain |
| 4.6.4.8 | Very Small AdvFS Domains Created In lockmode 4 |
| 4.6.5 | Logical Storage Manager |
| 4.6.5.1 | LSM Sparse Plexes May Erroneously Mask an I/O Failure |
| 4.6.5.2 | Restrictions with LSM root and swap Volumes |
| 4.6.5.3 | Possible Problems Accessing Physical Block 0 with LSM |
| 4.6.5.4 | Using LSM with SWXCR-P(A/B) and SWXCR-E(A/B) RAID Controllers |
| 4.6.5.5 | Enabling LSM After Installation Requires Rebuilding the Kernel |
| 4.6.5.6 | The volrootmir Script Supports Only LUN 0 on HSZ |
| 4.6.5.7 | Using LSM rootvol Requires sysconfigtab Parameters |
| 4.6.5.8 | Error While Dissociating a Preferred LSM Plex |
| 4.6.5.9 | Presto Reset and Flush Operations May Cause System Crash |
| 4.6.6 | Mounting Associated Products CD-ROMs on Tru64 UNIX Versions Other Than Version 4.0F |
| 5 | Development Environment Notes |
| 5.1 | General Programming |
| 5.1.1 | The malloc Function Is Now Tunable for Better Multithreaded Performance |
| 5.1.2 | New DEC C Default Tuning Could Impact Applications That Directly Map I/O Space |
| 5.2 | Realtime Programming |
| 5.2.1 | SA_SIGINFO Not Visible Under Certain Namespace Conditions |
| 5.2.2 | POSIX 1003.1b Synchronized I/O and File Truncation |
| 5.2.3 | The fcntl() Function and F_GETFL with O_DSYNC File Status |
| 5.3 | DECthreads (pthreads) |
| 5.3.1 | Static Libraries |
| 5.3.2 | Signal Handling |
| 5.3.3 | Scheduling Behavior (Contention Scope) |
| 5.3.4 | Problems Using of the stackaddr Thread Creation Attribute |
| 5.3.5 | DECthreads Read-Write Locks |
| 5.3.6 | DECthreads Object Naming |
| 5.3.7 | DECthreads Metering Capability May Not Be Reliable in Some Situations |
| 5.3.8 | Memory Alignment Issue |
| 5.3.9 | DECthreads pthread_debug() and pthread_debug_cmd() Routines |
| 5.3.10 | DECthreads SIGEV_THREAD Notification Mechanism |
| 5.4 | Profiling |
| 5.4.1 | Change to hiprof's Profiling of Threaded Programs |
| 5.4.2 | Change in Naming of Files by cc Profiling Option |
| 5.5 | Debugging with dbx |
| 5.5.1 | Examining the User Program Stack in a Kernel Crash Dump |
| 5.6 | Java Programming |
| 5.6.1 | Name Space Conflict Between Java and SVE |
| 6 | Window System Software Notes |
| 6.1 | Hardware Notes and Restrictions |
| 6.1.1 | Qvision Graphics Display Error |
| 6.2 | X Servers |
| 6.2.1 | Limited Multiscreen Display Support with CDE |
| 6.2.2 | Do Not Modify the keymaps.dir File |
| 6.3 | X Clients |
| 6.3.1 | X Window Colormap Resources |
| 6.3.2 | Old X Environment |
| 6.4 | CDE Clients |
| 6.4.1 | Inaccessible Dialog Buttons |
| 6.4.2 | Screen Savers Prevent Efficient Power Management |
| 6.4.3 | Remote Invocation of CDE File Manager dtfile |
| 6.4.4 | The dtmail Application |
| 6.4.4.1 | MAILLOCKING Environment Variable |
| 6.4.4.2 | Tooltalk Locking Disabled by Default |
| 6.4.4.3 | Row and Column Display |
| 6.4.4.4 | Attachments Are Not Included |
| 6.4.5 | CDE's Static Dependency on the Network |
| 6.4.6 | The xnlLanguage Resource Settings May Cause Problems with CDE |
| 6.4.7 | Possible Failure in the XOpenDisplay Call |
| 6.5 | Windows Programming |
| 6.5.1 | X11 Font Problem |
| 6.6 | Internationalization |
| 6.6.1 | Japanese Keyboard Support in Console Mode |
| 6.6.2 | System-Default Keyboard Setting May Prevent User Login |
| 6.6.3 | Dxterm Does Not Support Latin-2, Latin-4, and Latin-Cyrillic Characters |
| 7 | Documentation Notes |
| 7.1 | Installation Guide |
| 7.1.1 | Chapter 12 (Performing a Worldwide Update Installation) |
| 7.1.2 | Appendix E (Associated Product Descriptions) |
| 7.2 | System Administration Guide |
| 7.2.1 | Section 10.5.2.1 (Print Symbols for Advanced Printing Software) |
| 7.2.2 | Section E.4.1 (Hardware Requirements) |
| 7.2.3 | Section E.4.3.3 (Configuring Logical Partitions) |
| 7.2.4 | Section E.4.3.7 (Disabling Automatic Boot Reset) |
| 7.2.5 | Section E.4.3.8 (Set Memory Interleave Mode) |
| 7.2.6 | Section E.4.4 (Initializing Partitions) |
| 7.2.7 | Section E.4.5 (Installing the Operating System) |
| 7.3 | Assembly Language Programmer's Guide |
| 7.4 | Programming with ONC RPC |
| 7.5 | Gate Daemon Configuration Guide |
| 7.6 | System Configuration and Tuning Guide |
| 7.7 | Guide to Preparing Product Kits |
| 7.7.1 | Section A.1.12 (How to Build a Consolidated CD-ROM) |
| 7.7.2 | Section A.2.2 (Building a Consolidated CD-ROM) |
| 7.8 | Online Help Volumes |
| 7.8.1 | General Problems |
| 7.8.2 | Integration |
| 7.8.3 | Update Path in Installation Online Help Is Incorrect |
| 7.8.4 | Help Volumes by Application |
| 7.9 | Device Driver Documentation |
| 8 | Features and Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement |
| 8.1 | DECwindows Applications |
| 8.2 | Adobe Display PostScript, Client Libraries, and X Server Extension |
| 8.3 | Nonconforming Curses Library |
| 8.4 | The -oldc C Compiler |
| 8.5 | The dbx Debugger |
| 8.6 | DEC C Compiler Default Change from -std0 to -std |
| 8.7 | Change in struct utmp, struct utmpx, and struct lastlog |
| 8.8 | C Language long double Type Changing to 128 Bits |
| 8.9 | C Library Functions and POSIX P1003.1C |
| 8.10 | POSIX 1003.4a (draft 4) pthread Routines in DECthreads |
| 8.11 | DECthreads CMA Interface |
| 8.12 | Asynchronous I/O Binary Compatibility |
| 8.13 | Nemacs |
| 8.14 | Berkeley Software Distribution TTY-NAME |
| 8.15 | SCSI Device Names |
| 8.16 | The -x and -p Options in addvol and mkfdmn |
| 8.17 | LSM Block Change Logging (BCL) |
| 8.18 | LSM volassist Command Syntax |
| 8.19 | LSM volprint Command Format |
| 8.20 | LVM-to-LSM Migration Tool |
| 8.21 | OSF/Motif Version 1.1.3 |
| 8.22 | XIE Version 3.0 X Client Extension |
| 8.23 | Microsoft Sound Board Driver |
| 8.24 | Graph Utility |
| 8.25 | The atmsetup Script |
| 8.26 | Remote Prestoserve Support |
| 8.27 | Disk Size Requirement for Installation |
| 8.28 | Installupdate -i Option |
| 8.29 | Different awk Versions |
| 8.30 | The secsetup Script |
| 8.31 | Open3D TURBOchannel and PVpci Device Support |
| 8.32 | System Management Utilities |
| 8.33 | Changed Protected Password Database Format |
| 8.34 | Audit_setup Script |
| 8.35 | VM Subsystem ubc_nfsloopback Variable Is Obsolete |
| 8.36 | libsecurity.a |
| 8.37 | XPG3 ctab Locales |
| 8.38 | Security Interfaces |
| 8.39 | The ogated Routing Daemon |
| 8.40 | PEX Extensions |
| 8.41 | NL* and NL* libc Interfaces |
| 8.42 | DEC Ada RTL |
| 8.43 | System V Environment |
| A | System Limits |
| A.1 | System Limits |
| A.1.1 | Installation Requirements |
| A.1.2 | Memory Limits |
| A.1.3 | Process Limits |
| A.1.4 | Device Addressing Limits |
| A.1.5 | Device Limits |
| A.1.6 | Logical Storage Manager Limits |
| A.1.7 | File System Limits |
| A.1.8 | Networking Limits |
| A.1.9 | Limits for Backup Utilities |
| B | Software Subset Information |
| B.1 | Disk Space Required for Software Subsets |
| B.2 | Disk Space Required for Update Installations |
| B.3 | Disk Space Required for RIS Areas |
| B.4 | Disk Space Required for Documentation |
| Tables |
| 3-1 | Supported Options Behind the Bridge |
| 8-1 | Retired DECwindows Applications |
| 8-2 | BCL Configuration Examples |
| 8-3 | libsecurity Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement |
| 8-4 | libsecurity Data Structure Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement |
| B-1 | Tru64 UNIX Version 4.0F Operating System, Volume 1 |
| B-2 | Tru64 UNIX Version 4.0F Associated Products, Volume 1 |
| B-3 | Tru64 UNIX Version 4.0F Associated Products, Volume 2 |
| B-4 | Disk Space Required for RIS Areas |
| Index |