Thanks everyone

I was under the impression that all updates to clients whether first
install or not required remote shell.

The upgrade should be a breeze now , once all change controls have been
raised (sigh !!!)

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: 15 August 2006 16:45
To: James Pattinson
Cc: Clooney, David; List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp ?

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:29:05PM +0100, James Pattinson wrote:
> In my experience you can push out from the master to upgrade a client 
> even if there's no remote shell access, as long as you have "some"
> version of NBU installed. It uses the bpcd connection only, and then 
> probably tar to write the new files out.
> 
> Worth a try on a couple of test servers perhaps?

We do this all the time - we do not have remote shell access.  Initially
installing a client requires this but upgrading a client does not.

        .../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org



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