Re: [pca] PCA return codes

2008-09-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:06:14AM -0700, Martin Paul wrote: > Christophe Kalt wrote: > > On Sep 16, Fred Chagnon wrote: > > | In my wrapper script for pca, I would like to be able to determine if pca > > | finished patching completely, or if it finished prematurely, perhaps due > > to > > | a pat

Re: [pca] Listing only installed , Recommended & security

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE wrote: < Sorry paul, left out the header --> ./pca -f . -l installedrs Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Sep/23/08 Host: iecsai33 (SunOS 5.10/Generic/sparc/sun4u) List: installedrs And blank from here on ! And you're sure that there are some R/S patches installed on t

Re: [pca] Listing only installed , Recommended & security

2008-09-24 Thread Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Paul Sent: 24 September 2008 14:52 To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] Listing only installed , Recommended & security Ray, > Is there a way to only list installed , Recomm

Re: [pca] What patch level do you practise

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
What would your practise be in this suituation You fail to describe "this situation", and this question is probably the most FAQ about patching. I leave it to others to describe their favourite practice, but recommend to take a look at: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles

Re: [pca] Listing only installed , Recommended & security

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Ray, Is there a way to only list installed , Recommended & security using a local showrev/uname/pkginfo. It should work just the way you tried it. Look here: $ pca -l installedrs | wc -l 121 $ uname -a > uname.out $ showrev -p > showrev.out $ pkginfo -x > pkginfo.out $ pca -f . -l insta

Re: [pca] pca: Failed (unknown file type)

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Evan, Good morning...or is it already your afternoon? It's 15:30 here .. so I'm nearly done with my daily tasks already :) in other words, my own tool was preventing pca from working I see. At least I know that I asked the correct questions, it's just that you didn't answer them right awa

[pca] What patch level do you practise

2008-09-24 Thread Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
PCA recommends only applying missing,recommended & security . ./pca -l missingrs What would your practise be in this suituation Ray Cromwell EITO - Unix server team Global Technology mobile +353(0)87 2121925 phone +353(1)2037000 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[pca] Listing only installed , Recommended & security

2008-09-24 Thread Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
Hi , Is there a way to only list installed , Recommended & security using a local showrev/uname/pkginfo . I can run pca -l installedrs from a client . But If I place showrev/uname/pkginfo & pca script in a directory and run pca -f . installedrs asking pca to use showrev/uname/pkginf

Re: [pca] pca: Failed (unknown file type)

2008-09-24 Thread Evan Bradley
Martin, Good morning...or is it already your afternoon? > Forget about getupdates1.sun.com, it won't work with pca. While this and > sunsolve.sun.com probably access the > same patch database, the interface > (URLs etc.) is completely different. Okay, thank you for the clarification. I will f

Re: [pca] PCA return codes

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Christophe Kalt wrote: On Sep 16, Fred Chagnon wrote: | In my wrapper script for pca, I would like to be able to determine if pca | finished patching completely, or if it finished prematurely, perhaps due to | a patch that required an immediate reconfigure reboot. Does pca have | different return

[pca] Checking for pca updates

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Hi, Recently I noticed that some host was daily downloading 100's of copies of pca from our server within a few minutes, causing quite some network traffic. I tried to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] by e-mail, to no avail. I added the IP address to apache's .htaccess file, but it kept on trying. S

Re: [pca] pca: Failed (unknown file type)

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Paul
Evan, Forget about getupdates1.sun.com, it won't work with pca. While this and sunsolve.sun.com probably access the same patch database, the interface (URLs etc.) is completely different. Let's try one more thing - please run: /usr/sfw/bin/wget --http-user ... --http-passwd ... "http://su