Great! Does anyone know if the script will do disk space checking so it knows
How much disk space it needs to install the patches. Or does anyone have a
Script to do this ?
Brad
-Original Message-
From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On
Behalf Of Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia)
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:30 AM
To: 'pca@lists.univie.ac.at'
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches
Last week, after reading Dagobert's email about the loopback, I tested it on
one of my servers which had a sym link for /var/sadm and it worked beautifully.
I was able to reboot and it mounted the loopback correctly from the vfstab
entry too. Now I'm able to install new patches without the sym link getting
removed.
What had been happening (with the sym link) is that some patch installs worked
ok, others would blow away the sym link. Then the next patch attempt would fail
because it thought the dependency was missing because the list of existing
patches was no longer accessible.
Neil Brookins
- Original Message -
From: Stevenson, Bradley (NE) [mailto:bradley.steven...@gd-ais.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 09:30 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion pca@lists.univie.ac.at
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches
What if its /var/sadm that is linked. Would using the loopback Method work in
this case as well ?
-Original Message-
From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On
Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:20 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches
Am 23.01.2013 15:06, schrieb Stevenson, Bradley (NE):
Was there a solution to this problem ? We are considering the use of
this tool in our Environment but we do have linked directories for
/var/sadm/pkg on some of our servers.
The solution is to *not* use a symbolic link for /var/sadm/pkg/. That's an
issue with Suns/Oracles patch tools (like patchadd), BTW, and not PCA.
As Dagobert mentioned, use a loopback mount instead:
rm /var/sadm/pkg
mkdir /var/sadm/pkg
mount -F lofs /apps/sadm/pkg /var/sadm/pkg
You can also make this permanent via vfstab.
hth,
Martin.
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