Overview

To fix a critical bug in your version, the Jive Support team may provide you with a fixpack jar file to fix the bug. This article provides the steps to deploy the fixpack.

Version

Jive Custom

Process

1. Upload a-fixpack-for-JIVE-XXXX-vXXX.jar to the /tmp/ directory for each web node, via:
   
   

   scp a-fixpack-for-JIVE-XXXX-vXXX.jar <your_username>@<web_node_url>:/tmp/

2. Log into each node and access the Jive user via:
   
   

   sudo su - jive

3. Due to a change as of Jive 8, Jive 7 and older have a different step:
   
   
   • For Jive 7 and older:
     

     cp /tmp/a-fixpack-for-JIVE-XXXX-vXXX.jar /usr/local/jive/applications/<instance_name>/application/WEB-INF/lib/

   • For Jive 8 and newer:
     

     cd ~/applications/<instance_name>/application/WEB-INF/classes~/java/bin/jar
         xvf /tmp/a-fixpack-for-JIVE-XXXX-vXXX.jar

4. Perform a full restart.

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