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

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're always using an out of date patchdiag.xref file, how can you tell what patches you're behind on on every client machine? I think the main issue I'm having is that I want to compare to BOTH the latest and a specified baseline on every client. You really

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

2008-08-28 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Martin, Am 28.08.2008 um 11:37 schrieb Martin Paul: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're always using an out of date patchdiag.xref file, how can you tell what patches you're behind on on every client machine? I think the main issue I'm having is that I want to compare to BOTH the latest

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

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Paul
Dagobert Michelsen wrote: I think providing archived patchdiag.xref versions from your site would be a valuable service for the PCA users ... I'd better not. The SLA, which you have to accept before accessing SunSolve, says: Software and Information are the confidential information of Sun

[pca] Option -H supresses reboot information

2008-08-28 Thread Christoph Litauer
Hi, I used to use option --noheader (-H) in my pca wrapper script ... and wondered why my machines didn't even reboot after a kernel patch. As far as I debugged it --noheader suppresses reconfigure or reboot messages at all. The manpage doesn't mention that, I think it should? -- Regards

Re: [pca] Option -H supresses reboot information

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Paul
Christoph Litauer wrote: I used to use option --noheader (-H) in my pca wrapper script ... and wondered why my machines didn't even reboot after a kernel patch. As far as I debugged it --noheader suppresses reconfigure or reboot messages at all. The manpage doesn't mention that, I think it

Re: [pca] Option -H supresses reboot information

2008-08-28 Thread Christoph Litauer
Martin Paul schrieb: Christoph Litauer wrote: I used to use option --noheader (-H) in my pca wrapper script ... and wondered why my machines didn't even reboot after a kernel patch. As far as I debugged it --noheader suppresses reconfigure or reboot messages at all. The manpage doesn't mention

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

2008-08-28 Thread Rajiv Gunja
Well, isnt it obvious that PCA has become such a good competitor to smpatch and their weird TLP that they do want to restrict the use or distribution of patchdiag.xref file. However it is freely available to everyone, with or without a sunsolve account on their website, so not sure what they are