Re: [pca] patch downloads broken

2018-05-03 Thread BABAULT . Daniel 
Hello,

Some patches are OK (Oracle Studio, Java), others not …

2066 patch on line

16 patch avalaible

4 patch downloaded

=

120272 -- < 41 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
148027 -- < 07 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: compress cp cpio ln mv pack pax tar patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
148506 -- < 35 ---  15 Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3: Patch for C++ Compiler
Done
--
148517 -- < 12 ---  15 Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3: Patch for fortran compiler 
8.6
Done
--
150119 -- < 05 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: kssl patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150121 -- < 03 R--  15 SunOS 5.10: audit_event patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150377 -- < 07 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: LDAP Patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150400 -- < 61 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: Kernel Patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150440 -- < 01 ---  15 SunOS 5.10: /etc/magic Patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150442 -- < 01 ---  15 SunOS 5.10: zoneadm Patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
150912 -- < 02 R--  15 SunOS 5.10: pci_pci patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
152076 -- < 91 RS-  15 JavaSE 6: update 191 patch (equivalent to JDK 6u191)
Done
--
152077 -- < 91 RS-  15 JavaSE 6: update 191 patch (equivalent to JDK 6u191), 
64bit
Done
--
152260 -- < 04 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: libnsl patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
152510 -- < 07 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: Tomcat 8 patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
152643 -- < 06 RS-  15 SunOS 5.10: Apache 2.4 Patch
Failed (Error 403: Forbidden)
--
## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Apr/30/18 ##



Daniel

De : pca [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de Thomas Bleek
Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2018 12:31
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Objet : Re: [pca] patch downloads broken

We have Oracle Premier Support, I also don't get the patches from their 
website. I have requested a offer for Extended Support, let's see
For me, it is obvious, that this is not a technical problem.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thomas Bleek

Here pca fails with 404:
root@toast:/tmp>pca -d
Downloading xref file to /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref
Trying http://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi
Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Apr/30/18
Host: toast (SunOS 5.10/Generic_150400-59/sparc/sun4u)
List: missing (10/170)

Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
-- -- - -- --- --- ---
120272 40 < 41 RS-  17 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch

Looking for 120272-41 (1/10)
Trying http://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi
Failed (Error 404: 120272-41 not found)
Failed (patch not found)
--
148027 06 < 07 RS-  17 SunOS 5.10: compress cp cpio ln mv pack pax tar patch

Looking for 148027-07 (2/10)
Trying http://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi
Failed (Error 404: 148027-07 not found)
Failed (patch not found)
--
150119 04 < 05 RS-  17 SunOS 5.10: kssl patch

Looking for 150119-05 (3/10)
Trying http://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi
Failed (Error 404: 150119-05 not found)
Failed (patch not found)
--
150121 02 < 03 R--  17 SunOS 5.10: audit_event patch

Looking for 150121-03 (4/10)
Trying http://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi
^C
ERROR: Caught a SIGINT


Am 03.05.2018 um 09:35 schrieb Martin Paul 
>:

Dear PCA users,

I've had two independent reports about patch downloads failing with "ERROR 403: 
Forbidden" since last week. It seems as if Oracle has changed or broken 
something in their hands-off

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

2014-02-14 Thread BABAULT . Daniel 
As our security officers says All patches must be applied, no unaplied patch 
could be 90 days oldest ...) we baught an extended support for Solaris 
Studio, necessary to download patches, cost is 300 €ur for 1 machine by year.

Daniel 

-Message d'origine-
De : pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] De 
la part de Andy Fiddaman
Envoyé : vendredi 14 février 2014 12:14
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Objet : Re: [pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3


On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Dennis Clarke wrote:

; Merely a polite question to anyone out there that still has Solaris ; systems 
doing compile work AND you are still using Oracle Solaris Studio ; 12 or 12.3 
releases.
;
; Has anyone bothered to spend the money for the separate support on ; the 
compiler tools and was it worth the expense as near as you can ; tell?

One of my customers bought this support specifically to obtain patches to add 
T5 processor support. The whole process was a pain but they did eventually get 
access to the patches. It's a 'Named User+' product which further complicated 
the issue.

Andy

Re: [pca] PCA is 10!

2013-09-09 Thread BABAULT . Daniel 
Happy birthday :-)

D@niel

-Message d'origine-
De : pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] De 
la part de Martin Paul
Envoyé : lundi 9 septembre 2013 13:08
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Cc : pca-n...@lists.univie.ac.at
Objet : [pca] PCA is 10!

PCA is 10!

Scrolling down on the PCA-News web page, at the very bottom, one finds this 
message: 2003/09/09: First version. Introducing PCA 1.0. So it's really 10 
years now since I decided to make this script public, after I've been using it 
for some time internally. It had 208 lines at that time.

Only one day later I received the first e-mail with the subject pca 
from Andrew Brooks, which was a lot like the many messages I received in the 
next ten years:

First, he thanked for the useful script. Such comments from PCA users turned 
out to be my main motivation to maintain and refine PCA in the following years. 
So thanks to all of you who ever sent positive comments!

Second, he provided an idea (and included code) for some new function (a new 
option -H to output HTML) which I immediately decided *not* to include in the 
official version of PCA :-) In my answer I stated that I wanted to keep PCA as 
simple as possible, not depending on some URLs staying consistent on Sun's web 
page. I always liked Unix for its tradition of simple commands which can be 
used in pipes to achieve great things.

Soon other PCA users provided more and more input and I started to add new 
functions and options over the time, always weighing simplicity against 
usefulness. The option to download patches from Sun directly was probably one 
of the most useful, and the one which caused me most work in the last years. 
Sun (and later Oracle) turned the simple process of downloading a patch file 
via FTP into a complicated procedure with authentication, server redirects, 
dependencies on certain HTTP features etc. which I always had to follow closely 
to keep the download functions in PCA working. There were moments when I 
seriously thought about giving up on it.

While I knew that Sun engineers were using PCA themselves, and Sun never 
succeeded in providing a own, working patch administration tool (I would have 
been the first to switch, believe me!) they never officially acknowledged PCA, 
although it was recommended on some Sun websites and PDFs.

As I got a lot of e-mails in the meantime from admins asking about the usage of 
PCA and me answering the same questions over and over again, I created the PCA 
mailing lists (for those interested in numbers, I have
4827 messages in my folder with private PCA communication, and 3139 messages on 
the PCA mailing list - I definitely wrote more text than code). This helped a 
lot, as power users now answered the queries from beginners. I also had a lot 
more contact to the users of PCA and was fascinated in how many different ways 
and procedures it was being used. 
I also got in contact with Gerry Haskins and Don O'Malley from Sun, which made 
it a lot easier to sort out problems and to get information about the internals 
of Sun's patch creation and publication. Thanks to both of them for their help 
and patience!

With the appearance of Solaris 11 and its IPS system, traffic on the mailing 
list was reduced a lot. As PCA is not needed anymore on Solaris 11, it is now 
being used mostly by experienced admins running Solaris 10 who already know 
what they do. Personally, I also think that PCA is feature complete for quite 
some time now, and as (now) Oracle doesn't change their patch infrastructure 
anymore, new versions of PCA have been reduced to a minimum.

As far as I'm concerned, that's very welcome. While I still work with some 
Solaris systems, we're moving away from Solaris here slowly, due to the high 
prices of Oracle hardware and support. Of course I'll keep PCA working as long 
as somebody is still using it.

Finally, let me state that I'm pretty proud of what PCA turned out over the 
years - it has saved numerous sysadmins around the world uncountable hours of 
work and frustration. This compensates for all the time I invested, even if it 
was frustrating now and then when performing complicated tests to ensure PCA's 
analysis being correct or hunting for obscure bugs. Would I publish PCA 1.0 
once again if I could go back to 2003? I think so :-) If only for the amount of 
positive feedback I got over all the years.


Let me end with a quotation which is the basis of my work on PCA (and also in 
general):

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there 
is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)