D3-Linux 9.0 - monitor M6

[jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk]

If you are running D3-Linux 9.0, please do not apply Monitor M6 if you
use either of the following services (that I have noticed).

OSFI no longer works

Nailed / Turnkey TELNET ports do not LOGOFF correctly, and you end up
hanging the Linux PID process.

I re-applied Monitor M4c and these services came back correctly.

I have made TL aware over a week ago, but they appear not to have
either (a) fixed them or (b) made an announcement and temporaliry
removed M6 from download.


John

[Gene Buckle]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk wrote:

> If you are running D3-Linux 9.0, please do not apply Monitor M6 if you
> use either of the following services (that I have noticed).
>
> OSFI no longer works
>

John, thanks for the heads up! I'm updating my 7.5.0 system to v9 on
Sunday and I use OSFI a lot. Please post something here if TL issues a
patch to fix the issue.

tnx.

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[jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk]

Monitor M8 is due to be released which fixes some issues, but not the
OSFI.

So we will have to wait and see what they come up with.

John

[Gene Buckle]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk wrote:

I wonder why they skipped 7. :) I also just noticed that they never posed
release notes for M5 & M6. They're only present for M4a and M4c.

Thanks for the update John.

[jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk]

They had posted release notes, but now they have "pulled" them, even
though they havnen' actually pulled M6 from being downloaded

here are the "notes" that were released

35903 M6 Corrected a problem with CIFS file systems not being able to
be accessed on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit systems through OSFI.
35829 M6 Corrected a problem with the reset option for D3 that would
not reset the port if it failed previously on at a user or account
password prompt.
35816 M6 Corrected a problem with improperly initializing a variable
if IPv6 is not loaded, which resulted in a buffer overrun and could
result in memory corruption.
35457 M5 Corrected a problem with global hang up on error not allowing
the starting of shared printers.
35454 M5 Changed the set-device command to clean up the monitor Tape
Control Block for a tape device if it has some corruption.
35335 M5 Corrected a problem with the output of fdisk not accounting
for 4k disk sectors.
33119 M5 Enhanced the Makefile to also work on 64 bit Linux.


John

[Gene Buckle]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk wrote:

> They had posted release notes, but now they have "pulled" them, even
> though they havnen' actually pulled M6 from being downloaded
>

I wonder who dropped the ball and didn't pull the update when they removed
the release notes. Thanks for posting them John.

[GlenB]

It seems as though Q-pointers to unix paths have a problem as well. If
content changes in the file system it is not reflected in the Q-
pointer unless you log off and log back on. I.E. files and directories
still exist that were just deleted. We're running 9.0 on a RH6 dev
system. I'll get more version info tomorrow.

GlenB

[jo...@mrpsystems.co.uk]

I have not seen that problem with Q-Pointers

I am running M6 now, and all is ok from the D3 side, when updating
directories within Linux

Saying that, I am on Red Hat 5.7 Enterprise, not RH6

John