Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Oh look, an update to the service pack
I'm of mixed mind about this one (purely selfish reasons of course), but Novell has released what they're calling, "OES SP2, NW6.5 SP5 Update 1". Which you can download here. This is not exactly new for Novell, since they frequently release 'update collections' for the Novell Client (I think "C" was released a week ago or so). But the important thing here are the patches they included in the update. From the TID:
In the bigger picture, I think we just saw how Novell is going to handle getting between SP5 (a.k.a. OES SP2) and OES2.0 (a.k.a. SP6).
Tags: netware, SP5
This file contains the following files which have been previously released separately and are provided together in this patch kit as a convenience for installation:I was planning on applying three of the four, but the WinSock one I hadn't. Perhaps I should integrate that into my patch process, eh?
nw65os5a.exe 2973639
n65nss5a.exe 2973412
nwlib6h.exe 2974119
wsock6i.exe 2973892
In the bigger picture, I think we just saw how Novell is going to handle getting between SP5 (a.k.a. OES SP2) and OES2.0 (a.k.a. SP6).
Tags: netware, SP5
Monday, July 31, 2006
NW65SP5 rolls on
Friday, July 28, 2006
NW65SP5 incoming
In the next week I intend to put SP5 for NetWare 6.5 onto our servers. Since SP5 came out in January, things have progressed quite a bit in the realm of post-SP5 patches. So here is the list of patches I'll be applying:
The patches in red are the ones I recommend for everyone. Everything else I'm applying due to policies here, and demonstrated need. Everyone probably doesn't need the LibC patch, but I absolutely do, so it's in there. The NetStorage patches are because I use that product, which not everyone does. The httpstk and nile patches are because all of my servers face the public, and I need to be able to defend against such malicious SSL trickery.
With all of the above, SP5 is looking pretty solid so far. In the support forums, at least. We'll see how well it works around here. We've already pushed the eDir update, so departments who are not me have already put SP5 into production here at WWU, and I haven't heard any problems yet.
Tags: NetWare, SP5
Patch | Explanation |
nw65os5a.exe | SERVER.EXE update that fixes a lot of memory allocator problems. Highly recommended. |
n65nss5a.exe | Post-SP5 NSS update that is in 'public' release. Includes a fix for an AFPTCP abend we've had a time or two. |
nile65sp5a.exe | Security fix. |
ncp65sp5a.exe | Fix of 'Salvage' bug introduced by SP5. Highly recommended. |
httpstk5.exe | Security fix. |
ethertsm_msm.exe | Specific to the server brand I'm running. Fixes some memory problems. Hey, anything helps. |
iprntnw65sp5d.exe | Many fixes to NDS/iPrint. NDPSM is the big one for us, several of the listed fixed problems we are seeing. |
nwlib6h.exe | It's a LibC fix. How could I NOT apply it? |
tsa5up19.exe | Post SP5 TSA fixes. Anything that improves backup speeds. |
nsclasses.exe | Fixes bug introduced in SP5 in NetStorage. |
nsxdav.exe | Fixes NetStorage WebDav problems, and memory leak in interupted upload/downloads in NetStorage. |
dprpc_security.exe | Security fix in iPrint. |
The patches in red are the ones I recommend for everyone. Everything else I'm applying due to policies here, and demonstrated need. Everyone probably doesn't need the LibC patch, but I absolutely do, so it's in there. The NetStorage patches are because I use that product, which not everyone does. The httpstk and nile patches are because all of my servers face the public, and I need to be able to defend against such malicious SSL trickery.
With all of the above, SP5 is looking pretty solid so far. In the support forums, at least. We'll see how well it works around here. We've already pushed the eDir update, so departments who are not me have already put SP5 into production here at WWU, and I haven't heard any problems yet.
Tags: NetWare, SP5