I downloaded PTF5 over the weekend and was dismayed to see that ADSTAR is
distributing LIBUP8.  (See 8/19 message below sent on this thread.)  We have
documented login script corruption and server crashes in 3.12 servers, as
well as high utilization on Netware 4.1 servers.

Apply LIBUP8  at your own risk.  Will ADSTAR confirm that this PTF runs OK
w/ LIBUP7?

Steve Kuhn, Network Manager, Aegis Insurance Services, Inc., Jersey City NJ
kuhns%aegis AT mcimail DOT com  201.521.4565

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From: Kuhn, Steve
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Subject: RE: Novell LIBUP8 problems
Date: Monday, August 19, 1996 4:17PM

LIBUP8 is a definite problem.  We rec'd anecdotal info from (2) major
vendors that its CLIB was buggy (it was causing overwrites of a variety of
NLMs on our servers); from a VAR in the area that it caused crazy
utilization on Netware 4.x; and InfoWorld p 106, 8/12/96 documents that it
changes login scripts (which also happened to us).  We've backed out to
LIBUP7.

Steve Kuhn, Network Manager, Aegis Insurance Services, Inc., Jersey City NJ
kuhns%aegis AT mcimail DOT com  201.521.4565

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>.From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Cc: KUHNS
>Subject: Netware NDS backup
>Date: Monday, August 19, 1996 8:49AM

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>MCI Mail date/time: Sun Aug 18, 1996  3:56 pm  EST
 > Source date/time: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:42:00 +12
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>We have had numerous problems trying to back up the NDS on a Netware 4.1
>server.  We have rebuilt the server several times and re-installed all the
>Netware OS software.  The Netware server kept "crashing" every time we
tried
>a backup of the NDS.  This time we have tried applying the latest Netware
>patches one by one and running NDS backups in between to try and isolate
the
>problem.  The tests seem to point to the LIBUP8 patch as being a problem.

>Can anyone explain this?