Hi, I do the same with my wrapper for PCA. I send the output to /var/log/installpatches.log and filter only the patch being installed and any error messages to the console, thus avoiding a lot of text from being spit on the console while the engineer is installing.
Adding time stamps before and after the patch installation gives us the estimate of time required to run similar patch installs and also provides a time line of which patch was installed when, thus keeping track of any patches which might have messed up the Apps on the server. -GGR Rajiv G Gunja ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Paul" <mar...@par.univie.ac.at> To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:24:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [pca] FW: Request logging facility Hi, >> Would it be possible to add logging to pca, IE- when a recommended >> cluster patch set is run, it creates a log file in >> /var/sadm/install_data. Can pca be altered to create a log file with >> all the patches that were installed in a similar fashion ? pca sends messages for every installed patch to syslog, you should find the ouput in /var/adm/messages. This is sufficient in most cases. If you want more detailed log output, I would use something like this to redirect pca's complete output to a logfile: pca --install ... 2>&1 | tee -a /var/tmp/pca-install.log This will show the complete output from pca on screen, as usual, but also append it to the file /var/tmp/pca-install.log. Martin.
