Mark,
This may not necessarily be a problem with the downloaded patches,
but rather with a 5.0 bug where the ACD being set erroneously. This
usually happens to files created soon after a reboot, but can happen
later as well depending upon the system activity. There is a patch
available for this (I don't recall the ID offhand), but I don't believe
it is General Release yet. This has hit one of my customers several
times. Since then, they are regularly using MPEX's HASACD qualifier
on a LISTF to flush them out.
Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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From: Mark Bixby[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 1996 10:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Beware - downloadable MPE patches with bogus ACDs
Last Friday night, I installed (with Patch/IX) the TurboImage patches TIXHXX9A
and MPEHX97A that I had downloaded via the web after talking to HPRC about a
logging password problem we were having.
All of the patched NM programs failed with LDRERR 56 and all the CM programs
failed with LOAD ERR 53 whenever a regular user would try to :RUN them. But
from MANAGER.SYS (with SM) the programs would load OK. Weekend production
was waiting, and so I had to back out the patches.
A more leisurely investigation Monday morning revealed that all of the patched
programs had the following bogus ACD entries:
$OWNER : R,W,RACD
$OWNER : R,W,RACD
$GROUP_MASK : R,W,RACD
$GROUP : R,W,RACD
@.@ : RACD
With @.@ only having RACD, that would explain why normal users couldn't run
the programs.
The HPRC says the appearance of these bogus ACDs is a known issue pertaining
to web patches. SO WHY DON'T YOU FIX IT, HP? To me, bugs in the patch
process is a problem of high severity. The HPRC suggested workaround until
this is fixed is to ALTSEC ;DELACD all patched files with bogus ACDs.
Since both patches have been superseded, HPRC is sending them to me on DDS
this time around.
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Mark Bixby E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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