[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
2007-01-10 15:15:29
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[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules |
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brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason) |
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Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:15:29 -0500 |
I'm still waiting to see if we're contacted by an application vendor
(Windows), but heavily reliant on java. That said, I tried to run the
tzupdate on a Windows box (with java console), but it blew up looking
for zipfile or jarfile stuff. Haven't looked any further.
Thanks for bringing this up.
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf
> Of Jeff Lightner
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: Jack Forester, Jr.; Veritas List
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
>
> It's probably because Java is advertised as being platform
> independent.
> If you had a compile for an OS that didn't do DST (OS400 maybe?) it
> would be nice if the Java did. However for most of us it's
> a bit of a
> pain. I wasn't even aware of this Java TZ stuff until we got
> the notice from HP sometime back that specifically mentioned Java.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf
> Of Jack Forester, Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM
> To: Veritas List
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
>
> I guess I didn't phrase my question very well, as we are
> testing the Java update as well. I wrote a little perl
> script so I could identify all of the installed JREs on my
> servers. Any time we do patches or updates, I always worry
> that we've overlooked something small but critical that will
> break things in a major way. I tend to follow the philosophy
> that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>
> I wonder why Sun gave Java the ability to do DST rather than
> using the functionality of the underlying OS.
>
> Mike L. Varney wrote:
>
> >Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches -
> - you need
> to
> >go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it.
> It's
> >actually very easy to do.
> >
> >I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is
> necessary,
> as
> >updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially
> if there's
> an
> >Application Server on it. As far as I know, the Java components are
> only
> >the Admin GUI and the Backup & Restore GUI. The rest of
> NetBackup is
> >distubuted in binary form.
> >
> >That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on
> those
> >mission critical servers.
> >
> >-- M
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com>
> >Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >01/10/2007 12:44 PM
> >
> >To
> >"Jack Forester, Jr." <jack.l.forester at lmco.com>, "Veritas List"
> ><veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> >cc
> >
> >Subject
> >Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent
> notification
> >for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX.
> >Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java
> >wouldn't.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jack
> >Forester, Jr.
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM
> >To: Veritas List
> >Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
> >
> >This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but
> it's
> >
> >something we're working on right now. The new Daylight Saving Time
> >rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering
> if anybody
> >has investigated the impact to NetBackup. We've been testing our OS
> >patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our
> >attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to
> be updated.
> >Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long
> as we have
> >the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits
> done in Java.
> >My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical
> >operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Jack L. Forester, Jr.
> UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
> Lockheed Martin Information Technology
> (304) 625-3946
>
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