Re: newbie-like question: how to get recommended patch clusters
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" From: [email protected] " " It's been at least two years since I patched my solaris/sparc systems, and the web site has changee. " " I followed what I thought was the obvious path to get recommended patch clusters, and ite tells me I need a support contract to get them. " " Is there a trick or another path to take to get recommended patch clusters? I will need them for Solaris 8, 9 and 10. " " -- " --Carey Schug you don't need a contract but you do now need a sunsolve account. they're free, for the free patches. then get pca from http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/ - at least for s8 and s9 it's better than any of the sun patch tools. you'll need a pca.conf something like this: ################ user=REDACTED passwd=REDACTED patchdir=/export/install/patches/8/ patchurl=file://export/install/patches/8/ wget=/opt/csw/bin/wget xrefdir=/usr/local/patchcheck_1.2/ ################ and wget 1.11 or newer. i put the explicit path in because i've also been struggling with scripts based on sun recommendations which turn out to need an older wget, which i installed in /usr/local/bin. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen [email protected] and think what none thought