=== Please do not reply to this email. Your reply will not be received === === due to anti-SPAM controls we have in place. Please see QUESTIONS AND === === SUPPORT below for info on how to contact us. === M A G N I C O M P S Y S I N F O Patch Release Announcement Patch Version 5.1.3 OVERVIEW A new bug fix release of MagniComp's(tm) SysInfo(tm) is now available for download. This bug fix release is available for free to all licensed users of version 5.1. Your existing 5.1 license.mcl file should be used in conjunction with this patch release. DETAILS PATCH VERSION: 5.1.3 DATE OF RELEASE: 3/18/2005 VERSION PATCHED: 5.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS: SysInfo full runtime environment SysInfo Software Developers Kit SysInfo Runtime environment without any user interface AFFECTED PLATFORMS: All supported platforms PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN THIS PATCH The following is a cumulative list of fixes included in this release since the 5.1.2 GA product release: ######## NEW FEATURES ######## * build/doc Updates to automate the build of the CHANGES.txt file. Older entries are now archived in the CHANGES-Archive.txt file. * class/storvol Add driver for HPUX LVM. * doc/ReleaseNotes Update ReleaseNotes to document that we now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64 (AMD64/EM64T) and IA64. Also that we support Fedora Core 3. * sie/class/storvol Add driver to support Solaris Volume Manager and older Solstice DiskSuite. ######## BUG FIXES ######## * build/dist Fix bug in makeself which resulted in distribution files (*.sh) not being extractable with a "bad trap" error. This was due to changes to "trap" syntax in newer OS like RHEL 4. * misc Fix mcsysinfomotd to use '%' instead of '@' to avoid autoconfigure substitution problems. We also now include the OS name and version in /etc/motd. * sie/class/device Fix problem were we failed to report a netif device if we are unable to retrieve any netif's from the system's netif table. * sie/class/netif Improve debug info of netif data by showing ifconfig -a data in debug output. * sie/platform/hpux Fix core dump bug in class Software discovery on HPUX systems. Also fixes several problems interpreting quoted text as output by swlist(1m). * sie/platform/linux Improve "OS Dist Name" on Linux hosts which lack LSB support. We previously reported "Red" on Red Hat Linux 7.1 and we now correctly report "Red Hat Linux". * sie/platform/linux Fix "OS Dist" variables in class general to properly parse /etc/issue on Linux systems like SuSe 9.2. * ui/wrapper On Linux make sure --BUILDPLATFORM returns a valid value on non-redhat based dists. * install If the user installs the "noui" product distribution and does not specify "--format report" print an error which spells out they need "--format report" or should install the "Full" product distribution. * sie " at the begging of each debug output line by default. * sie/class/partitions Fix bug in DOS Partition code which reports on parititioning on X86 systems to correctly report Start, Size, and End sectors for larger (~70GB) disks. * sie/core Fix incorrect handling of changing our real UID to 0 when executing some external OS commands. * sie/driver/all Nearly all drivers never properly based their ProgramName onto the message functions which resulted in no program name being displayed in some error and debug messages. * sie/license Improve DEMO license message for storsys-pro to state implicitly that the DEMO license is not for SysInfo base, but this optional feature. * sie/platform/hpux Fix device names for disk drives to be "cXtXdX" instead of "diskX". * sie/platform/linux Fix to make DMI retrieval of hardware info work on Linux 2.6.6 and later IA64 systems. * sie/platform/linux Fix bug which could result in "0 Bytes" being reported for "System Memory". This usually occurs on Linux 2.6 IA64 systems. * sie/platform/linux On Linux 2.6 systems we now query block devices such as /dev/sdX directly instead of using /dev/sgX since the later is deprecated as of 2.6 and not always present. Previous to this fix on many 2.6 systems we reported no SCSI disks. * sie/platform/linux Reduce size of PCI device data read from 256 to 64 bytes in order to avoid hanging poorly compliant devices such as the PCI bus on Dell 6650 servers. * sie/platform/mac Update system model definetions for Apple Mac's. * sie/platform/sun Add "FJSV,pgtb-fjgi" netif entry to sunos.cf. * sie/platform/sun Add support for Solaris 10 on SPARC and X86. * sie/platform/sun Use libdevinfo(3) to get "Cpu Model" on Solaris X86 systems (and SPARC). We previously reported no value for "Cpu Model" on Solaris X86. * sie/platform/sun Improve device identification by using new PCI VendorID and DeviceID data made available via libdevinfo with Solaris 10. * sie/platform/sun Fix core dump problem on Solaris 10 X86 systems when probing for hardware. Bug was in code trying to set CpuInfo->BitSize. * sie/wrapper If "--show" and "--format report" are both given call SIE directly since the UI layer cannot handle this combination. * ui/wrapper " label to beginning of all debug output lines. Also capture $0 as $ProgramName and re-use $ProgramName to avoid $0 changing. DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1) Use your Internet connected browser to go to the URL http://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcdownload.cgi 2) From the "-- Select Product to Download --" menu, choose the bug fix version of this product as indicated by "VERSION PATCHED" above. 3) Read and accept the license if you wish to proceed. 4) The next page will be the actual download page. Click on the appropriate "Download" button to download each distribution you require. Note that the names of the download images will include the PATCH VERSION in their file names. 5) Become root and run "/bin/sh file" where "file" is the newly downloaded patched distribution file. IMPORTANT: When installing the new patched version, be sure to choose an empty directory. Do not install into the same directory which already has SysInfo installed in it. 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