Networker

Re: [Networker] lockbox issue after upgrade from 7.5.1 to 7.6.1

2011-04-07 15:32:30
Subject: Re: [Networker] lockbox issue after upgrade from 7.5.1 to 7.6.1
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT newtech DOT fi>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:31:44 +0300
torsdag 07 april 2011 19:04:13 skrev du:
> Weirdly enough, we've narrowed the problem down to the operating system
> upgrade. Currently testing, but it seems as though the whole upgrade of
> Networker goes great on RHEL5.4 but breaks the lockboxes if we upgrade our
> server to RHEL5.5. The testing we're doing is to see if turning off
> Networker before doing the server upgrade will cause the issue not to
> occur.
> 
> The lockboxes are used in our environment to store Oracle database
> passwords.  They are encrypted with some sort of algorithm that appears to
> be using underlying OS encryption libraries. The theory we're running on is
> that if we turn off Networker before touching the OS layer, Networker will
> just begin running fine with the new updated OS when we reboot and turn it
> back on.

Library version problems should show up pretty clearly in the logs...

Dag

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
type "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to 
networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this 
list. You can access the archives at 
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER