Re: [pca] full patches

The READMEs are where Sun puts any special instructions. From Sun's stand point it is expected that you (we) read each and every one. In general I ignore the to get the complete fix note unless the reason I'm patching is to fix that problem. I find using PCA to create an HTML to the READMEs

Re: [pca] pca can not get basic plan updates

Dave, Are you sure http://scm-sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/EditAccount is still active? It does not accept my current contract numbers and the one it's showing has expired. Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University David Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/2008 6

Re: [pca] can't download patches

For whatever it's worth, there are planed SunSolve outage notices posted at: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunSolve/Outage+Notices and sometimes I see the announcement before I experience it :) It is showing outages for Feb 14 and 15 as planned, at least for 8AM to 10AM MT. One would

Re: [pca] SunSolve updated -- improved patch downloading

. When will the feedback process support screen shots? It's very hard/impossible to explain in an email some of the problems that I have encountered. (is it too early in the week to start thinking about having a good weekend?) Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia

Re: [pca] PCA features: Check if SST(aka JASS) is installed on thesystem to analyze.

Matin, It's my understanding that the patching process ignores SST hardening. I have seen patching undo hardening on Solaris 9. As far as configuration files go - doesn't the --safe option address that issue? Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University Martin

[pca] kernel patch for LDom control domain

patches.) 3. Any general advice for patching a running production primary/control domain. Thanks for any insight, Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University

Re: [pca] kernel patch for LDom control domain

: Kernel Patch have a good weekend, Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University Glenn Satchell glenn.satch...@uniq.com.au 2/18/2010 5:12 PM Glen Gunselman wrote: I need to update an older Solaris that is the primary/control domain for a T5220 to pickup

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

/2010 or 2/22/2010. From the blog at http://blogs.sun.com/security/category/alerts it sure looks like there have been new alerts since 2/22/2010. Thanks for any insight, have a good weekend, Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University

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

...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Glen Gunselman Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:29 AM To: pca@lists.univie.ac.at Subject: [pca] Where have all the patch related email reports gone? In the past I relied on several Sun email reports to keep me somewhat informed about patches: SunSolve Online

Re: [pca] 403 errors even with valid contract

I see some comments at the bottom of http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunSolve/How+Entitlement+Works indicating problems with entitlements after recent changes on Sun's end ... My entitlements look good though. have a good day, Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State

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

like the old New Documents email from before the previous round of SunSolve changes. In the past these have been very useful to me. have a good day, Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University

Re: [pca] Quarterly patch schedule

The updates that we have been getting were called quarterly updates by the Sun Spectrum support contract web pages even though there were only about 2 of them a year. Perhaps the next Solaris update will be called CPU rather than 5/10 update 9. There may be big changes a foot - or - may be

[pca] MSC planned outage

FYI: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SSMSC/Outage+Notices is showing a planned MSC outage this Saturday April 24th. SunSolve is listed as NOT affected, except for the following note: if MSC is off line, then the user will see an option to add contracts. The user can add a contract and receive

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

Martin, Your conclusion maybe correct but your explanation does not fit my recent experience: On June 10th I received the same error (Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Jun/09/10) - Using this patchlist.txt file 124861-19 124863-23 126495-04 124867-14 124870-03 124872-07 126995-04

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

Martin, If you can reproduce the problems, re-run pca with --debug and send me the output. Do not have the old patchdiag.xref file but can reproduce. Here's the console output for the first patch: /var/tmp/pca --pretend /var/tmp/patchlist.txt --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp --safe --readme

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

Paul mar...@par.univie.ac.at 6/17/2010 3:00 AM Glen Gunselman wrote: Do not have the old patchdiag.xref file but can reproduce. The problem has been fixed in the current development release of pca. /var/tmp/pca --pretend /var/tmp/patchlist.txt --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp --safe --readme Out

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

/s 11:28:53 (807.18 KB/s) - `119254-76.zip' saved [1708956/1708956] I don't know if it's important but notice the 302 Moved Temporarily response when it worked. have a good day, :) Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University Don O'Malley don.omal

Re: [pca] Download server issue fixed

Mike, I am still getting: Failed (Error 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content.) for many patches. Glen GunselmanSystems Software SpecialistTCSEmporia State University Mike Brown michael.c.br...@oracle.com 12/13/2010 12:55 PM Please note there was an issue with the

Re: [pca] Download server issues

Hopefully it's all sorted out and this is not important, but I received an email on Nov 18th titled CORRECTION: Your Oracle Support Identifier Information. The New Support Identifiers listed are not the current SIDs for the products covered by the Legacy Sun Contract Numbers listed. I assume

Re: [pca] pca returns patchadd error - inactive BE

/delete dir and files on the mounted inactive BE? Are you using ZFS? I hope some of this helps, I'm mostly just thinking though the keyboard ... Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at

Re: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?

to NOT be recommended? GlenG From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Robert B Tate Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:51 PM To: Glen Gunselman; pca@lists.univie.ac.at Subject: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!? Installing this patch puts many of our systems

Re: [pca] 118666-36 118667-36

to the galaxy update ...) :) Have a good day, Glen -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:05 AM To: Glen Gunselman; PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re

Re: [pca] assistance finding document?

Use the MOS Knowledge search. I think this link will work but you will need to log into MOS: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?_afrLoop=920929207585998id=1501499.1_afrWindowMode=0_adf.ctrl-state=11tg112yme_81 have a good week, GlenG -Original Message- From:

Re: [pca] different directory for patches

Jamen, I use --patchdir Example: # download a patch and display readme sudo /var/tmp/pca --download 138627 --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp --readme I find --xrefdir usefully as well. Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist Information Technology Emporia State University 1200 Commerical St

[pca] PCA selects SPARC patch on X86

20120829-01 Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist Information Technology Emporia State University 1200 Commerical St Emporia Kansas 66801

[pca] xref aged 1603 considered up to date?

-- -- - -- --- --- --- 149668 -- 01 --- 356 VM Server for SPARC 2.2 ldmd patch ex=0 1030 10:21:06 zoot ~ notme $ Glen Gunselman

Re: [pca] xref aged 1603 considered up to date?

(OVM 2.2) ? Ben On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Glen Gunselman gguns...@emporia.edumailto:gguns...@emporia.edu wrote: This does not seem right to me. Am I missing something? Isn't the number of days since last December less than 1603? I thought pca would download a new xref file if the one

[pca] a new R patch

I was surprised to find a new R patch today: ex=0 1030 15:29:09 notme ~ notme $/var/tmp/pca --list missingrs --root=/.alt.${GG_newBE} --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Oct/29/13 Host: sys1 (SunOS 5.10/Generic_150400-03/sparc/sun4v) Root: /.alt.s10u10PCA_20131027

Re: [pca] xref aged 1603 considered up to date?

) quickly revealed the problem with both the xref and the IPs I needed to add. Thanks, Glen Gunselman (Note: I checked the ctime for patchdiag.xref on several servers and it appears that NetBackup is causing ctime to be updated when the file is backed up.)

Re: [pca] xref aged 1603 considered up to date?

Martin, BTW, do you know PCA's -y, --nocheckxref option? It will make PCA skip the check for updates of the xref file. If you use it with a frozen patchdiag.xref file, everything should be fine. I find both: --nocheckxref and --xrefdir very useful. Thanks, GlenG

Re: [pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3

Studio code generator (my words) - I don't know if this is for both SPARC and X86, or just SPARC. I have not used gcc or Solaris Studio - so have no experience with either. Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist Information Technology Emporia State University 1200 Commerical St Emporia

Re: [pca] Error: Failed (Error 401: Unauthorized)

I've successfully downloaded to three different servers this morning using the following: sudo /var/tmp/pca --download 119254 121430 --xrefdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp Glen Gunselman -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun

Re: [pca] Question: Downloading patches to a central server using pca-generated patch reports

Gordon, I'm not doing what you are, but I go the other way and copy the patchdiag.xref file to each server - that way there is no need to keep the explorer ect. Files. Glen -Original Message- From: pca [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Gordon Morrison Sent:

Re: [pca] patch dependencies

FYI: I received both of your posts. I would expect the -list option to list missing dependencies. It depends on the patchdiag.xref file which has been known to contain errors. Here's an example: /var/tmp/pca --list 150400-01 Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Dec/08/14 Host: pdkermit (SunOS

Re: [pca] patch dependencies

...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Glen Gunselman Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 2:34 PM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] patch dependencies FYI: I received both of your posts. I would expect the -list option to list missing dependencies. It depends on the patchdiag.xref

Re: [pca] Patch download fails

Martin, I do not remember whether the listserv allows attachments but I ran the current dev pca on x86 Solaris 10 (so I used 151616) - the output is attached. Thanks, Glen -Original Message- From: pca [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: [pca] Age

Most recent. The Recommended (or CPU) patch set does not include all the r or s' flagged patches. Also, sometimes the r or s is added later - so you can end up with a pca report suggesting you missed sometime the last time you patched. Glen From: pca [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at]