Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin
From: edwin@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: 7.0 update: well done HP !
Keywords: HP-UX 6.5 --> HP-UX 7.0, good job
Message-ID: <2632@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 12 Mar 90 14:59:55 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of CS
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I did the upgrade to 7.0 on our HP9000/370 (a cluster server with 30
diskless clients) last weekend and I'd like to make HP a compliment:
doing the upgrade was a real pleasure, you guys at HP did a great job!

If you haven't done the upgrade yet, it's hard to tell what makes it
so smooth, but allow me to pick this tiny detail: as the update notes
tell you, the format of the "{b,u,w}tmp" files has changed. During the
update, the 6.5 version of these files are nicely converted to the new
7.0 format. I can easily think of another vendor who would handle such
as:
	"The format of the utmp/wtmp files had changed. Please remove
	 old versions of these files and re-create them with the right
	 permissions." ;-) ;-)

		[Note: the ";-)"'s are most obviously not added by the vendor]


By the way, talking about the new utmp format: I appreciate the "ut_host"
field in struct utmp, but why doesn't "who" show it to you???? (I did RTFM
and I also tried all options to "who", but... and YES, there were really
some remote logins and YES, an "od /etc/utmp" showed that the entry actually
contained a host name...)


		thanks for your time,
						--[ Edwin ]--
-- 
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