Thank you, that was it.  Apparently, it is the case on any system that
was upgraded and I was at v7.4.2 before.  Any system that I've done a
new install with v7.4.3 is a symlink out of the box, which is why the
RHEL5 system which was recently stood up does not have that problem.
Hmm, I do not recall which systems I used the upgrade features now
available in Networker, but I ran into a variety of gotchas using that
feature.  This may be just one more to add to the list. 

Patti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Voetelink D.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:20 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Problem using nwrecover v7.4.3 linux client
> 
> Hi Patti,
> 
> > Way back in August 2007 Stan had reported this same issue, but there
> > doesn't seem to be a resolution posted.  I know how to use 
> the CLI, but
> > that is not the issue.  Does anyone know the cause and/or 
> the fix for
> > this error?  I have it on all of my RHEL4 clients, but not my RHEL5
> > clients.
> > 
> > 125:nwrecover: unable to execute with hard links to binary
> > /usr/bin/nwrecover
> 
> I've seen this too on out 7.4.2 installation.
> 
> The problem is that on some systems, 'nwretrieve' is a hardlink to 
> 'nwrecover', while it should be a symbolic link.
> 
> wrong situation:
> # ls -l /usr/bin/nwre*
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root root 3196040 Apr  3  2008 /usr/bin/nwrecover
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root root 3196040 Apr  3  2008 /usr/bin/nwretrieve
> 
> correct situation:
> # ls -l nwre*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3196040 Apr  3  2008 nwrecover
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 Jun 19  2008 nwretrieve -> ./nwrecover
> 
> 
> To correct this:
> 
> # rm /usr/bin/nwretrieve
> # ln -sf nwrecover /usr/bin/nwretrieve
> 
> after that, nwrecover will start...
> 
> Dennis
> 
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