FYI NetWare 6.5 SP4 NSS corruption issue

Novell has discovered a serious NSS corruption issue with NetWare 6.5 SP4 when running the rebuild option. In certain cases the overflow beasts containing trustee or compression metadata may be truncated out of the NSS database causing the loss of trustees or even compressed files.

There is a tool being prepaired called FIXOVFT to help repair the trustee link to the overflow beast. Watch for the fix / patch soon. I'll post a link here on my blog site. There is discussion about removing NetWare 6.5 SP4 and re-releasing SP4 with the fixed rebuild option.

Loss of compressed files will have to be restored. Trustees will need to be recreated or restored from backup.

NetWare 6.5 SP4 was released August 30, 2005.

When to use YaST2, YOU or Red Carpet

What are the differences between updates, patches and packages. When do we use Red Carpet/rug? When do we use YAST2 or YOU to install them?

More information can be found in this Cool Solutions article by Stomfi.

Also check out my past Blog post on how to patch SLES9 and OES Linux.

- Bucky

Debate: Why switch to Linux?

Why switch to Linux and Open Source? These are very compelling reasons!

http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/switchlinux3.swf

Five reasons NOT to move to Linux

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8124627492.html

You be the judge!