Title and Copyright Pages
 
About This Manual
Audience
Organization
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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