Please! Use lsof!  fuser is not a very good utility for this. 

-Andrew Stueve

Sean Clarke wrote:

>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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>>    -----Original Message-----
>>    *From:* veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>>    [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of
>>    *Whelan, Patrick
>>    *Sent:* 17 July 2006 13:55
>>    *To:* veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>>    *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Updating UNIX clients from the master server.
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>>    All,
>>
>>    One more question. Is anyone aware of a problem updating UNIX
>>    clients running Oracle 8 from the master server? I have been told
>>    that Oracle holds some of the lib files open so the update can not
>>    succeed. Is this true?
>>
>>    Regards,
>>
>>
>>    Patrick Whelan
>>
>>    NetBackup Specialist
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>>    +44 20 7863 5243
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