Re: Anyone Develop NIS Problems after any recent 8_Recommended Patch Clusters?

From: Rhugga (rhugga_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:13:40 -0700

Barton Fisk wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:41:31 -0700, Rhugga <rhugga@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I patched out Master and Slave NIS servers this weekend and now NIS is
>> broken. (currently working with Sun support but want to squeeze all my
>> resources so my users don't hang me in a couple hours)
>>
>> The last patch cluster I applied to these systems prior to this
>> weekend was download Aug 14 2003 and installed Aug 14 2003.
>>
>> Saturday I downloaded the leatest patch cluster and applied it.
>>
>> If someone has experienced problems or know anything related to this,
>> let me know, and I will forward info.
>
>
> Do yourself a favor and use one of the patch programs like patchpro, or
> patchchk next time.
>
> These will attempt to determine only the needed patches based on your
> installed packages. They are not perfect, but will give you a bit more
> granular control over your patches.
>

Nah, don't trust those tools. Using the patch clusters does give me
granular control, merely remove patches you dont't want. This would not
have helped me anyway since I am using NIS and any patches related to
NIS would have be installed regardless.

-CC

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