Re: Solaris 2.5 client

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Author: Bill F Downes
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.5 client
01-20-97 10:45 AM

     Jerry,

     Thanks for the update! I pulled down IP20999, but the pkgtrans
failed. Could you find out what options were used when they did the
pkgtrans. Also can you find out the ETA for when SOLARIS 2.5.1 will
be supported.

                                        Bill


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Subject: Solaris 2.5 client
Author:  Jerry Lawson at ASUPO
Date:    1/19/97 10:09 PM



Bill - Perhaps this will clarify what is happening with the ADSM clients.  If
you want to try IP20999, we should be able to download it - I don't think it
has
been released through the regular distribution yet.

Jerry Lawson

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Subject: Solaris 2.5 client
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    1/17/97 7:01 PM


Frank, et al,

Let me try to clarify about the Solaris 2.5 client:

We first shipped our Solaris 2.5 client in September 1996 (client PTF 5),
including support for ACLs and HSM.  The client is supported on the
Solaris 2.5 operating system, but not the Solaris 2.5.1 operating system.

Previous to that, the Solaris 2.3/2.4 client TOLERATED the Solaris 2.5
operating system in March 1996 with client PTF 3.  Some customers used that
PTF 3 to backup or archive their Solaris 2.5 machines, even though their
ACLs weren't being backed up because that client just provided toleration.
It was these customers that had a problem with the true Solaris 2.5 client
 when it came out in September (PTF 5, IP20880), where they got a full backup
with their first incremental.  Westinghouse opened IC15350 against PTF 5.

Some customers used our PTF 5 Solaris 2.5 client on the 2.5.1 operating system

(even though we don't support it) and ran fine, but some were having problems
and calling them into the support lines.  Since we don't yet support 2.5.1
but hope to soon, we wanted to prevent anyone from running into problems,
so with client PTF 6, we prevent the Solaris 2.5 client from being installed
on the 2.5.1 operating system.

You can get around this by using the pkgtrans command to disable our
preinstall check in PTF IP20999, the Solaris 2.5 client PTF 6.
You do this at your own risk, until we come out with a PTF supporting 2.5.1.

We do recommend everyone move to the PTF 6 Solaris 2.5 client (IP20999),
not PTF 5, because files backed up with the PTF 5 Solaris 2.5 client will all
be backed up again with the PTF 6 or later clients on the first incremental,
due to the fix for IC15350.

I hope this makes things clearer.

MJ Lopatin
ADSM Client Development