Re #2: I'm pretty sure update_clients doesn't depend in any way on rsh or
rsh, or on ssh for that matter. It uses sockets provided by NetBackup.
On 2013-05-02 5:35 PM, "William Brown" <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com> wrote:
>I'll need to see what we do for a manual install, but I'm sure that the
>instructions that ship with the 6.5.6 patch kit are correct. We did a
>lot of work to package the installs so we only have to load the correct
>client tar file on the client - by default you have *all* the clients in
>some kits. We did generate the 6.5.6 kits on the master as for the
>remote install, and shipped those to the targets, but for basic testing
>we do it from the CDs and the patch kits.
>
>One key thing on RHEL was that for the tar command you must use the P
>option (tar xfP) as otherwise it does not unpack the tar files correctly
>and it all goes horribly wrong.
>
>As I understand it you can do 3 different installs:
>
>1) LiveUpdate - very interesting but tricky to set up when there are
>mixed Windows/UNIX environments
>2) update_clients script from the Master - used to require 'shields
>down' i.e. permit rhosts as root from the Master, later did allow a
>password to be entered...never viable for us
>3) Local install/upgrade
>
>We always use some version of (3), either by hand or using Altiris to
>push the installs. We do a huge amount of packaging to automate installs
>and configure the clients & servers to perform well, so we don't often
>hand install...but it definitely works locally for RHEL.
>
>William
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>Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5.6 client update script
>
>Environment: NetBackup 7.5.0.5 on Linux.
>
>I have some 32-bit Linux machines that need to be backed up. I still
>have the 6.5 installation CDs, so that's not a problem. But I'd like to
>install the 6.5.6 update to be consistent with my other clients. As near
>as I can tell, the scripts supplied with the 6.5.6 update expect to be
>run from the master server, and they expect the master to be running
>6.5.6.
>
>Does anyone know how to run the 6.5.6 update scripts in a 7.5
>environment? Ideally, I'd like to run the install locally on the client
>and not have to bother with the master server...
>
>Thanks,
>Neil
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