Installing Adaptive Server interim releases on top of existing installations

When an Adaptive Server interim release is applied on top of an existing Adaptive Server high availability installation, it overwrites files that are modified and saved during the original Adaptive Server high availability installation.

The Adaptive Server interim release replaces:

To avoid problems, complete the following tasks before any interim release installation:

  1. Save a copy of ase_login_file, SY., and sybhauser.

  2. Install the interim release.

  3. Modify the new versions of the files installed by interim release using the saved copies of the files. Make any appropriate changes to the file contents.

  4. Set the file ownership and permissions as existed prior to applying the interim release.