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[Networker] 7.2.x client versions after patching nsrexecd?

2007-10-23 16:37:25
Subject: [Networker] 7.2.x client versions after patching nsrexecd?
From: Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:30:38 -0500
Has anyone else noticed that EMC appears to have completely fouled up
what version a client reports (when you query it via nsradmin) with the
7.2.x patches?

For example, with a UNIX or Linux client running the initial 7.2.2 client
release, if you query its version (asking the client via nsradmin),
the client reports 7.2.2.Build.422.

If you install the 7.2.2.jumbo1 client software, and then query the
client, it now reports 7.2.Build.494.  Note the missing ".2".

If you proceed to install the patched nsrexecd on top of the 7.2.2.jumbo1
software, as EMC's documentation says you should, and then query the
client, it now reports just 7.2.  No build number, and the point release
number is still missing.

On Windows, on the other hand...  If you install the 7.2.2 jumbo package,
the reported version changes to 7.2.Build.494, as on Linux/UNIX.  When
you install the patched nsrexecd binary, though, the reported version
continues to be 7.2.Build.494 (it doesn't change to just 7.2, like the
Linux/UNIX version).

Either EMC has completely broken their version numbering (and made it
different for Windows than it is for Linux/UNIX), or the Windows binaries
for nsrexecd that are purported to fix the security vulnerability in
nsrexecd are in fact the wrong binaries.

Either way, it doesn't inspire confidence.

Tim
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