[Spacewalk-list] Versions of Client-Tools and Server

[Jan Hutař]

On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:36:24 +0200 "Steve Meier"
<email at steve-meier.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after seeing that rhnsd from Spacewalk Client-Tools 0.6 has a
> file handle bug, I was wondering if the Client-Tools and
> Server versions have to match?
> 
> rhnsd   4783 root    1r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> rhnsd   4783 root    2r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> rhnsd   4783 root    3r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> [...]
> rhnsd   4783 root 1021r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> rhnsd   4783 root 1022r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> rhnsd   4783 root 1023r   REG              253,0     2833
> 231105 /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> 
> Can I use a newer version of Client-Tools (rhnsd) when my
> server is still 0.6?
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Steve Meier

Hello,
although this is generally not a good idea, in rhnsd case you
should be safe to do so as (based on rpm changelog) there were
no client<->server communication related changes in last few
years.

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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