Hey gurus,

I have just installed a Sun Solaris 8 on my home Netra server. I
figured out how an ftp works in order to trasnfer files from my PC
(desktop computer) to the server.

All I am trying to find out is that on a fresh install of Sun Solaris
10 or a Sun Solaris 8 server how would I be able to find out which of
the patches should I download from sunsolve.sun.com.

Anyhelp would be great.
thanks

On 21 Mar 2007 09:51:08 -0700 "learner" <Zabaloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> All I am trying to find out is that on a fresh install of Sun Solaris
> 10 or a Sun Solaris 8 server how would I be able to find out which of
> the patches should I download from sunsolve.sun.com.

Use smpatch or pca.

-frank

Hey frank,
I have been trying smpatch command, but the machine says
ksh:not found: smpatch
and it says the same for the PCA command.
At work we are currently using Sun Solaris 8 and soon be upgrading to
Sn Solaris 10. I am new in the team so I still do not have admin
rights to any of the servers.
The "uname -a"
displays this
5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R.
Thanks for the help

On 21 Mar 2007 10:29:00 -0700 "learner" <Zabaloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey frank,
> I have been trying smpatch command, but the machine says
> ksh:not found: smpatch
> and it says the same for the PCA command.

Maybe you need to install them then.
-frank

Het Frank,
Any leads on from where could I download and install them?
Admintool and smc are not running as well on my server?

Any help would be great!
Thanks

On 21 Mar 2007 18:38:25 -0700 "learner" <Zabaloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Het Frank,
> Any leads on from where could I download and install them?

smpatch is sun tool, not entirely sure what packages you have to install
to get it, but if you did a "full install" it is installed.

you can find pca by using google.

> Admintool and smc are not running as well on my server?

um, ok?

-frank

learner <Zabaloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just installed a Sun Solaris 8 on my home Netra server. I
> figured out how an ftp works in order to trasnfer files from my PC
> (desktop computer) to the server.

So the Solaris machines do not have an internet connection?

> All I am trying to find out is that on a fresh install of Sun Solaris
> 10 or a Sun Solaris 8 server how would I be able to find out which of
> the patches should I download from sunsolve.sun.com.

Go to http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/...tallation.html and
download the pca script and the patchdiag.xref file via the links on
this page.

Put patchdiag.xref into /var/tmp, use "chmod 755 pca" to make the script
executable and run it with "./pca". It will give you a current list of
all the patches you are missing. This will work on both Solaris 8 and 10.

If you *do* have an internet connection, make sure you have wget on
your systems (it comes with Solaris 10, for Solaris 8 you can get a
package from www.blastwave.org). Then you can use pca to keep the
patchdiag.xref file up-to-date and to download patches directly from
Sun.

mp.
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