Re: Patching a Solaris 9/SPARC system
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" From: Phillip Tong <[email protected]> " " Okay - so I haven't been religiously patching my Ultra 2 (running " Solaris 9). But short of buying a support contract from Sun (and " therefore being able to download so much as a patch cluster!), what's " the easiest way people suggest patching a Solaris/SPARC box these days - " in particular, one that hasn't been patched in a while? " " There's the Sun Update Connector (or similar-sounding name) but I'm not " even sure how to go about using that if that's the way to do it (yes I " already have a SunOnline login from way back and it still works... but " it doesn't have a SunSolve contract associated with it). " " I'd upgrade this Ultra 2 to Solaris 10... if the CPUs were supported " (2x200MHz UltraSPARC). (On this front - can anybody confirm that Solaris " 10 will/won't work on this setup?) " " Ideas? Or should I just amble along and download the odd patch or two as " I need to? (Heavens above should I rebuild a Sun box... how I patch that " box would be beyond me right now without a patch cluster). you do not have to have a sunsolve -contract-, though they now insist you have a sunsolve -account-. many patches - iirc including the cluster - are still available for free. i still use patch check 1.2 and some home grown scripts - originally with ftp, now sunfreeware wget - to get the latest patchdiag.xref, and then d/l relevant patches, on a weekly basis. btw it now appears they update the xref daily. it used to be weekly, and monthly before that. also btw their example script 'getsolpatch.sh' and doc id #82023 have a subtle error [at least for me] - wget will not authenticate to sunsolve if you specify the domain name. it will complain but work if you hard-code sunsolve's ip. the domain name does work in browsers. i don't actually get around to installing patches more than semi-annually... ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen [email protected] and think what none thought