I put this question into the Novell forum and now I'm adding it here in hopes that somoen can help...
I know Novell 4.1 is old but that's what we have for a few of our servers still. Over the next year we will be upgrading to Windows 2003.
However in the mean time we are having an issue with Mcafee dats on the Novell servers.
When I update the dats, I unload Mcafee the copy the dats then reload Mcafee. as soon as I hit enter on the "load Netshld" command it brings down the server.
Is there an issue with Mcafee where it is no longer compatable with the Novell 4.1 O/S
And yes I'm putting this on both the Novell and Mcafee forums
Here is what I wrote in the Novell forum in addition to this as a response to a question there...
As soon as I entered the "load netshld" command it crashed.
Looking at the log though I see this:
abend: (server info): Free called with a memory block that has a null resource tag.
Then it gives O/S info and a series of stack numbers. If those numbers will help I'll include them in another message.
Then it says Additional info: THe netwar OS detected a problem with the system while executing a process owned by netshld.nlm It may be the source of the problem or there may have been a memory corruption.
Then is autorestarted.
Thinking there may have been a corrupt file from the Mcafee download, I then put the old files back in and reran netshld ...It worked fine.
As a test I redownloaded the Mcafee files and then put them on another server, only to get the same response.
This leads me to believe that maybe the latest versions of Mcafee don't support that version of Novell (4.11-4640) any longer. But I don't see anything from Mcafee saying that.
Does anyone have a direction for me to go or to look at this point. Fortunately viruses aren't targeting the Novell 4 OS at this time. But we still wish to be up to date.
Thanks in advance for your time and effort,
Len
I know Novell 4.1 is old but that's what we have for a few of our servers still. Over the next year we will be upgrading to Windows 2003.
However in the mean time we are having an issue with Mcafee dats on the Novell servers.
When I update the dats, I unload Mcafee the copy the dats then reload Mcafee. as soon as I hit enter on the "load Netshld" command it brings down the server.
Is there an issue with Mcafee where it is no longer compatable with the Novell 4.1 O/S
And yes I'm putting this on both the Novell and Mcafee forums
Here is what I wrote in the Novell forum in addition to this as a response to a question there...
As soon as I entered the "load netshld" command it crashed.
Looking at the log though I see this:
abend: (server info): Free called with a memory block that has a null resource tag.
Then it gives O/S info and a series of stack numbers. If those numbers will help I'll include them in another message.
Then it says Additional info: THe netwar OS detected a problem with the system while executing a process owned by netshld.nlm It may be the source of the problem or there may have been a memory corruption.
Then is autorestarted.
Thinking there may have been a corrupt file from the Mcafee download, I then put the old files back in and reran netshld ...It worked fine.
As a test I redownloaded the Mcafee files and then put them on another server, only to get the same response.
This leads me to believe that maybe the latest versions of Mcafee don't support that version of Novell (4.11-4640) any longer. But I don't see anything from Mcafee saying that.
Does anyone have a direction for me to go or to look at this point. Fortunately viruses aren't targeting the Novell 4 OS at this time. But we still wish to be up to date.
Thanks in advance for your time and effort,
Len
