Top Document: SGI misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -18- When will the next release(s) of IRIX be out? Next Document: -20- What's the best newsgroup in which to complain to SGI? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 4 Nov 1998 00:00:01 EST Bugs: Known bugs are documented in Product Release Notes. The Support Advantage package (sent regularly to all customers on support) includes a Software Change Requests binder. SupportFolio Online (previously Advantage Online) (http://support.sgi.com/) also lists SCRs. Patches: a) Customers on support can get patches from the TAC. The TAC will tell you about a patch only if you report a bug which the patch fixes, but will give you a patch if you ask for it by number. b) Support Advantage periodically includes a patch CD. c) SupportFolio Online (http://support.sgi.com/) has lists of patches and the patches themselves. SupportFolio Online is not as complete or current as the TAC, but is updated regularly. d) Some patches (primarily for severe security problems) are in ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/Patches/. This is the only way in which you can legally get patches without being on support. Patches sometimes appear on sgigate before Advantage Online. e) Walter Roberson <roberson@hamer.ibd.nrc.ca> maintains his own lists of patches for several versions of IRIX, which he posts regularly to comp.sys.sgi.admin (see above under "network-accessible documents") and makes available via WWW (see above under "WWW pages"). See also the article on patches in the Jul/Aug 1995 Pipeline, but note that it doesn't mention Advantage Online. Finally, the SGI FAQs mention many patches. Be aware that patches are superceded regularly. If you ask the TAC for a superceded patch, you'll be told about the patch which superceded it. SupportFolio Online has lists of superceded patches and the patches which superceded them. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -18- When will the next release(s) of IRIX be out? Next Document: -20- What's the best newsgroup in which to complain to SGI? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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