I think I found the problem. The single day discrepancy was the clue.
Our primary server uses EST time, and most of our Linux clients are set
to use UTC for root. Non-root users normally use EST. In each case, UTC
is further ahead by 4 hours which would account for the later dates and
which would also explain why I never saw more than a single day of time
difference.
George
George Sinclair wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I notice that when I run nwadmin as root on my host (Linux Red Hat 7.3
> with 6.1.1 client), I see a later date for the first and last savesets
> on certain volumes, but when I run it as myself, I see an earlier ending
> date for the same savesets and volume. The dates differ by one day. I
> first noticed this problem when I ran one of my scripts which queries
> the database on the primary server using the mminfo command:
>
> mminfo -v -q
> 'pool=pool,level=level,savetime>=startdate,savetime<=enddate'
>
> I was careful to run the script when the server was doing absolutely
> nothing. I got different results as root versus myself! Both outputs
> produce the same savesets, but the ones from root's output have these
> later dates, so I decided to manually check the savesets for the
> affected volumes by looking at the volumes window under nwadmin, and
> that's when I saw the discrepancy.
>
> This is not always the case for all volumes. It seems sporadic, but in
> each case the savesets are the same, with only the dates differing by
> one day. I have carefully scrolled all the way to the top and bottom in
> the savesets/volumes window to ensure that I am not truncating the
> information. I tried running this on several other hosts (various OS),
> and the results seem to vary, with some machines behaving just like mine
> when run as root versus someone else, and others producing identical
> output regardless of who I am logged in as.
>
> Next, I tried running the actual command that my script uses on the
> primary server to see what it thinks. I ran this as root, and the
> results were identical to those I see when I run as myself on my host. I
> find it odd that NetWorker would report a different startdate and or
> enddate depending on who I'm running as. After all, this is just a read
> query against the database and should require no special privileges.
>
> We're running Solaris 8 on our primary server with NetWorker 6.1.1. and
> Red Hat Linux 7.2 - 7.3 on various clients. All clients are at 6.1.1.
> Storagenode server is running Linux RedHat 7.3 with 6.1.1 also. We do
> have some SGIs that might be running slightly older versions of the
> client.
>
> Would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
> George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT gov
>
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