I concur, we have done this for 8i, 9 and 10g without incident. If you 
want to verify for yourself that libobk isn't being help open by Oracle 
you can use fuser.

Cheers
Sean


Weber, Philip wrote:
> I don't think so.  With versions of Oracle previous to 8i the 
> libobk.so libraries were linked into Oracle which might have been a 
> problem for updating the NetBackup Agent for Oracle from the master 
> server, but I have not had problems with the UNIX client update and 
> the Oracle linking is simpler from 8i up.
>  
> Phil
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>     One more question. Is anyone aware of a problem updating UNIX
>     clients running Oracle 8 from the master server? I have been told
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