Hello Dave
There was howto on replacing rsh with ssh on this list at some point, if
that's any help.
regards
Michael
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:00:02 +0100, Clooney, David wrote
> Thanks for that Ed
>
> Pushing out from the master would be ideal, however remote shell is a
> def no no in this environment.
> I certainly don't have logins to all the servers for Ftp_to client
> either.
>
> In a fix I'm afraid, like you idea of a template though.
>
> Regards
>
> Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org]
> Sent: 15 August 2006 12:52
> To: Clooney, David
> Cc: List Veritas List
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp ?
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Clooney, David wrote:
> > Trying to rollout an upgrade of x number of solaris clients , the
> > problem I have is the SA'a want to simply remove the package and then
> > add the new, which will detroy any exclude_lists out there in the
> > environment.
>
> Teach your admins that removing the exclude_lists will be bad for their
> health :-). Not only is removing those files bad, but they could wiping
> out files like NET_BUFFER_SZ, etc.
>
> > I use bpgp quite a bit in secured environments and find very useful
> > indeed, albeit I have seen technotes in the past it cause issues I
> > have yet to have a prob in the last 4 years.
> >
> > Problem is that you have to know the specific file you are after on
> > the client, has anyone incorpated wildcards in some sort of way or
> > fashion to bring down say,
> > exclude* ??
>
> You could do a restore to each of the new clients... A restore can use
> wildcards. Alternatively, do a bpdir before they upgrade to get the
> list (including the special files), bpgp to pull the files, and then
> bpgp after the upgrade to put them back.
>
> Personally, I like the restore approach - build up a template which
> includes all of the special files in your environment plus the
> pattern for the exlude files, and as soon as the upgrade is done,
> run the restore.
>
> I do have to ask though, why don't you just push out the upgrade from
> the master? Push outs work very well to Unix boxes... No work
> required at all from the admins (so they can't screw it up).
>
> .../Ed
>
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