Re: [pca] Where have all the patch related email reports gone?

2010-03-22 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
Try logging in to sunsolve then clicking the link, that worked for me. -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Paul B. Henson Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:08 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re:

Re: [pca] Patch 142901-05: installation woes

2010-03-09 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
I agree with the comment about not mentioning pca when you open a case just because the it simplifies the process. However, I agree with Ben, now that the ticket is open and you have a server down, I would push for what you pay for. You are not asking anyone to fix pca. I would also point

Re: [pca] [OT] OpenSolaris / IPS support patching

2009-12-15 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
See in line comments. -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Jones, Dave Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:24 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: [pca] [OT] OpenSolaris / IPS support patching Hi

Re: [pca] [OT] OpenSolaris / IPS support patching

2009-12-15 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
their feedback. Few better ways see how easy it is to break something that to give it to the users. ;-) Thanks again, Dave -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Bliss, Kevin L Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:40 PM

Re: [pca] patch issue

2009-11-04 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
wrote: Hi Kevin/Brian, As this CR has Escalations open against it there should be a patch containing the fix available for it before May 2010. I'm not sure roughly when you could expect a fix; I'll do some digging and see if I can find out. Best, -Don Bliss, Kevin L wrote: I spaced

Re: [pca] patch issue

2009-11-03 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
, On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:09 -0700, Bliss, Kevin L wrote: This is not a pca issue but may be helpful to those on the list. A recent Solaris 10 patch has created a compatibility issue with fmd which causes it to log 10+ errors per second to /var/fm/fmd/errlog. I only noticed because one

Re: [pca] patch issue

2009-11-03 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
it there should be a patch containing the fix available for it before May 2010. I'm not sure roughly when you could expect a fix; I'll do some digging and see if I can find out. Best, -Don Bliss, Kevin L wrote: I spaced that one, but that makes the delivery date way out there, I hope the SE is wrong

Re: [pca] patch issue

2009-11-03 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Bliss, Kevin L Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:49 AM To: 'PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion' Subject: Re: [pca] patch issue I opened a case with Sun, the engineer opened a bug, they found that the bug was a duplicate so

Re: [pca] patch maintenance schedule

2009-10-28 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
If you sign up for the weekly Sun alerts, the entries that are security related follow the standard security ratings so the information is available for you to evaluate. PCA does not use Sun's patch clusters, it uses the latest patches as indicated in patchdiag.xref. Our goal is quarterly

Re: [pca] sunsolve broke again?

2009-10-27 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] sunsolve broke again? Hi Kevin, All should be working on SunSolve. If you are having issues, can you please post output of the failing patch download attempt so that I can look into it further. Thanks! -Don Bliss, Kevin L wrote: I am having problems with patch

[pca] sunsolve broke again?

2009-10-26 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
I am having problems with patch downloads again, is it down again? As much as it is failing, perhaps the better question is it up yet! Kevin Bliss Con-way Enterprise Services Never Settle for Less 503 450-6124 (v) 971 678-0402 (c) bliss.ke...@con-way.com Telecommute - Every Tuesday Please use

[pca] patch issue

2009-10-22 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
This is not a pca issue but may be helpful to those on the list. A recent Solaris 10 patch has created a compatibility issue with fmd which causes it to log 10+ errors per second to /var/fm/fmd/errlog. I only noticed because one of the systems patched was running low on space. I opened a

Re: [pca] patch issue

2009-10-22 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Bliss, Kevin L Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:09 PM To: 'PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion' Subject: [pca] patch issue This is not a pca issue but may be helpful to those on the list. A recent Solaris 10 patch

Re: [pca] Obsolete Patches

2009-09-23 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
I would recommend reading the man page (pca -m), there are many useful options and features. Until you have time for that, try pca -l to have pca provide a list of missing patches for your specific server (along with dependencies). Then your review the list, if you are okay with the list you

Re: [pca] PCA bug

2009-09-10 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
The debug info shows it found /usr/local/bin/wget. It appears that someone installed a version of wget that was compiled with a newer version of libc. The default wget should be in /usr/sfw/bin and is probably the one that has been working. You could probably remove the bad version in

Re: [pca] Problem downloading patches with local proxy

2009-09-09 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
Has the patch gone in yet? I am still unable to download patches using pca, wget, or curl. I can download the via browser so it is probably not an entitlement issue. -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don

Re: [pca] Patch download issues today?

2009-06-17 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
I was able to download the first one below, I did not try the others. -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Jones, Dave Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:39 PM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: [pca]

Re: [pca] SUNWxvnc

2008-12-22 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
This error looks like the common issue of the patch being installed but the portion of the patch associated with the package SUNWxvnc was not. You can check that with showrev -p |grep '^Patch: 125719'. If the patch is installed and then you are good to go. If you add the SUNWxvnc package

Re: [pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

2008-08-27 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
You can either make a local copy of the patchdiag.xref on all of the servers on the same day. Or can run pca -d (whatever other flags you use) to download instead of install on the same day on all of the servers. Then do the install when you want, using the download directory as your

Re: [pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

2008-08-27 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
Kevin Bliss Con-way Enterprise Services 503 450-6124 (v) 971 678-0402 (c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telecommute - Every Tuesday -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:15 PM To: PCA (Patch Check

Re: [pca] 120011, 122660 Patch weirdness

2008-07-17 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
I just do steps 1, 2, and 6. Kevin Bliss Con-way Enterprise Services 503 450-6124 (v) 971 678-0402 (c) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telecommute - Every Tuesday From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sapin, Hugues Sent: Thursday, July

[pca] Patch files on a local server

2008-04-15 Thread Bliss, Kevin L
The patch files on our local patch server get downloaded as 123456.jar instead of 123456.zip. Is there a configuration parameter I missed in the documentation that can set to allow pca recognize the .jar files as patch files.