SUMMARY (updated): Tru64 5.1B patch kit 5 installation problem

Ole Holm Nielsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.tru64.managers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Please note the updated info below.
Thanks to [email protected] and [email protected].

 > The file /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config should be a soft link to
 > ../cluster/members/{memb}/etc/pmgrd_iorate.config
 > which I had somehow overwritten.  Recreating the soft
 > link by
 >   cd /etc; ln -s '../cluster/members/{memb}/etc/pmgrd_iorate.config'
 > (notice the quotes to escape {memb}) fixes the problem.


Note: The correct command is *not* "ln -s" but:
    mkcdsl /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config
which will work correctly also on Tru64 clusters.
See the manual page for mkcdsl.

 > Now I could let dupatch do a baseline check without error.
 >
 > Thanks to these people for the correct answer:
 >    "Dr [email protected]" <[email protected]>
 >    "Jenny Butler" <[email protected]>
 >    "A. Mahendra Rajah" <[email protected]>
 >    "Brusche, Johan" <[email protected]>
 >
 >> I'm trying to upgrade Tru64 5.1B from patch kit 4 to patch kit 5.
 >> There's an error which I haven't been able to solve (see below).
 >> The file /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config was modified by me for disk
 >> monitoring, so I've renamed this file prior to installing the patch kit.
 >> I've also done a dupatch baseline operation, but this didn't
 >> solve the problem with /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config.
 >>
 >> Any suggestions for a resolution ?  At the moment that patch
 >> kit installation refuses to proceed because of this problem :-(
 >>
 >> 
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 >>
 >> Problem installing:
 >>
 >>  - Tru64_UNIX_V5.1B / Network Patches:
 >>         Patch 26020.00 - SP05 OSFCLINET540 (SSRT3653 SSRT2384 
SSRT2275 ...)
 >>         ./etc/pmgrd_iorate.config:
 >>                 does not exist on your system,
 >>                 however, it is in the inventory of installed subsets.
 >>
 >> This patch will not be installed.
 >>
 >> 
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Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
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