DU 4.0D observations ........

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:22:57 +0100 (MET)

Hello,

Now that I've successfully upgraded to DU 4.0D I've made some
observations:

1.) I've upgraded two machines and both have shown the same
    symptoms: I don't know what I did but suddenly "who" and "finger"
    did not output anything anymore because /var/adm/utmp had
    zero size. I don't know what caused this but it happend twice
    and on both upgraded machines.

2.) The upgrade unconditionally overwrote /etc/snmpd.conf without
    backup. I had to restore the file from another machine.

3.) What is /etc/thresholds.dat. Right after upgrade the system
    complained about a missing /etc/thresholds.dat. Well: I did a
    "touch /etc/threshold.dat" and the complaint went away but
    what is this file for?

4.) The X-Server patch for the S3-Trio line drawing problem apparently
    did not make it into 4.0D. Luckily the patched 4.0B shared library
    file works under 4.0D as well.

5.) After re-installing DecNet/OSI (the light version), I'm not able
    to "dlogin" into the system anymore:

    $ dlogin fwiis2
    dlogin, Timed out

    and "fwiis2" has the following entries in its daemon.log:

    Feb 17 11:18:59 finwal01 dnascd[19988]: Connect from LOCAL:.fwiis1::uic=[0,0]tom
                    for application cterm under daemon
    Feb 17 11:18:59 finwal01 dnascd[19988]: cterm, sia_ses_estab failed
                    for daemon
    Feb 17 11:18:59 finwal01 dnascd[17790]: Process exit (PID 19988),
                    status EX_TEMP

    This happens on both upgraded machines.

6.) Everything else seems to be fine. Even Oracle 7.3.3.0.0 runs without
    problems.

Thanks for any hints or comments -- Tom

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