Re: [pca] pca 20101216-02 reports ERROR 403: Service Error.

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Paul
Dennis Clarke wrote: At some point one must call it a night and realize that the problem is not with pca nor wget or even some openssl linkage. Connecting to getupdates.oracle.com|192.18.110.9|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Service Error 2010-12-17 04:29:12 ERROR

Re: [pca] pca 20101216-02 reports ERROR 403: Service Error.

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Paul
Stuart F. Biggar wrote: At about 7 AM MST (1400 GMT) OS downloads work for me but the new Studio patch fails: 145357 01 02 --- 1 Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2_x86: Patch for Compiler Common I expect that is because I don't have a compiler support agreement yet even though I do have OS/machine

Re: [pca] how to verify md5(from CHECKSUMS file) of patches downloaded

2010-12-16 Thread Martin Paul
Michele Vecchiato wrote: Ok, I'm a paranoid person ;-), but how does pca to verify that the patch downloaded from Oracle site is not corrupt? Simple answer - it doesn't. I have made experiments with JAR patches in the past (which are cryptographically signed), but the procedures to verify the

Re: [pca] 401 Unauthorized

2010-12-16 Thread Martin Paul
Hi There's a new development version (20101216-01) available on http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/installation.html which uses an alternative authentication mode. This one should fix the problems with some combinations of web proxies and wget versions. Finally, I got it to work using

Re: [pca] Mixed results

2010-12-16 Thread Martin Paul
Jones, Eric CIV SRF 1236 wrote: After checking a few more I'm getting hits of 2 successful here, 4 on another, 2 more somewhere else etc... But the patch numbers are not the same. It's hard to see what could be wrong then. When using the same MOS account and PCA setup, it would be weird if a

Re: [pca] how to verify md5(from CHECKSUMS file) of patches downloaded

2010-12-16 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: The reaons (or at least one reason) for differing checksums is that Sun/Oracle sometimes changes a patch zip file's contents after first publishing, like updating README files. As far as I know any functional change would trigger a new revision. A small addendum: I used

Re: [pca] Jar format bye bye - what's up with patch patch_order and jumpstart ?

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Paul
Gael Martinez wrote: Quick question to the PCA list, with the jar format being discontinued, who else is stuck with the profile entry not working ? patch patch_order http://10.115.176.59/Images/10/1009/RC1/Patches/sparctimeout 5 Interesting. I didn't know that only JAR format is supported in

Re: [pca] Download server issues

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Paul
Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions) wrote: Your co-worker probably has an email in his inbox outlining that you have made a request to access that SID and what to do about it. I think it's a first come, first served thing: my co-worker got to SID A before I did and therefore, he claimed

Re: [pca] 401 Unauthorized

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Paul
pierre-yves.thill...@infineon.com wrote: I may have missed some emails about this, but this morning I noticed that we were having the 401 problem. I had previously registered for an MOS account. Test downloads from Oracle with our new account worked fine. Have you tested both before and after

Re: [pca] 401 Unauthorized

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Paul
pierre-yves.thill...@infineon.com schrieb: But with the simple wget command as given below this does not work: I have a certain suspicion. To verify, could you please: 1. Run the same command, but use /usr/sfw/bin/wget (or any wget 1.11) instead of /opt/csw/bin/wget 2. Run the original

Re: [pca] 401 Unauthorized

2010-12-15 Thread Martin Paul
pierre-yves.thill...@infineon.com schrieb: Whaohyour suspicion was impressive... With /usr/sfw/bin/wget it works ! and the same download with pca if I set the wget variable to use /usr/sfw/bin/wget Ok, thanks for the confirmation. It'd be nice to hear from others with proxy

Re: [pca] MOS user name with @ character?

2010-12-14 Thread Martin Paul
Laurent Blume wrote: After discussing (in French) with Gérard, it seems his issue might be that he's using the '=' character in his password. We had a lot of conversation about it off-list, too, and at the end it suddenly worked after he changed the password to a new one and later back to the

Re: [pca] Release 20101213-01

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Paul
Thomas Roos wrote: We still have problems patching, using the newest pca-version, see below. pca gets 4 patches out of 55 and gives the same error for the rest: Failed (Error 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content.) Same here. Even patches which I downloaded successfully a few

Re: [pca] Release 20101213-01

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Paul
Diana Orrick schrieb: Thanks for the suggestion, Unfortunately the 1.12 wget requires libssl.0.9.8 which I cannot find without installing OpenSSL separately from the Sun/Oracle supplied openssl. Would prefer to stick with Sun supplied version and the updates provided as needed... It's fine

Re: [pca] Download server issues

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Paul
Mike Brown wrote: The download server issues are under investigation. Some actions have been put in place to alleviate the problems, but there still may be occasional unanticipated failures. We apologize for any inconvenience. Things look better here today. I successfully downloaded a

Re: [pca] Download server issue fixed

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Paul
Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions) wrote: Interestingly, I can download the readme of a patch but not the patch itself. For example, 146283-01. As someone mentioned earlier, one difference between success and failure was whether the query got redirected to akamai but perhaps that is a symptom

Re: [pca] :Re: FW: Pardon my question

2010-12-08 Thread Martin Paul
Eric, Please see the article from 2010/11/24 on PCA's news page: http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/news.html Until now the required changes for usage of the new Oracle download service are only included in a development version of PCA, because there was only a handful of patches

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-19 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: Has anybody been successful in downloading a README file? Obviously there was an error in the InfoDoc. A note has been added: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-79-1199543.1-1 18 November 2010: * Corrected error in documentation for downloading

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-19 Thread Martin Paul
Don O'Malley wrote: The new patch download service - getupdates.oracle.com - is now available for testing. I have completed the necessary changes to PCA to make it work with the testing service of getupdates.oracle.com. The current development release (20101119-01) includes these changes:

Re: [pca] Questions on initial setup

2010-11-10 Thread Martin Paul
Hi little help, 1. From the pca website it states *As pca uses the wget command to download patches from the patch server, make sure that any specially required option is set in /etc/wgetrc or $HOME/.wgetrc*.. I see the options to tell pca where wet resides but nothing to set the

Re: [pca] Anyone seen 124864-26 ?

2010-11-02 Thread Martin Paul
Dennis Clarke wrote: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-124864-26-1 SunSolve Errors You have encountered the following error(s) or warning(s): * The document requested could not be found Anyone seen this? Yes, same here, it's still missing. You could try to use

Re: [pca] 404 Not Found for today's new patches

2010-10-14 Thread Martin Paul
Don O'Malley wrote: These patches shoulb be available in the next couple of hours. Thanks - all these patches plus the new ones from today downloaded and installed fine now. Martin.

Re: [pca] zpool unavailable after Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-14 Thread Martin Paul
Paul B. Henson wrote: Sounds like it will either work fine or be broken depending on your hardware. We've got X4500's with 1GB disks, has anybody had any problems with U9 on that hardware platform? I have an X4500 with 500GB disks, on which I installed 142910-17 when it came out (Sep 07). On

Re: [pca] patch dependency error

2010-10-14 Thread Martin Paul
Dennis Clarke wrote: In any case the kernel rev on this machine was 118822-25 and pca says there have been a few revs since then : Oh yes, that's pretty old :) The following requested patches will not be installed because at least one required patch is not installed on this system.

[pca] 404 Not Found for today's new patches

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Paul
Just FYI - once again, I have troubles downloading the new patches from today's patchdiag.xref. Any attempt to download e.g. 144554-01, 144555-01, 144560-01 or 144914-03 fails with 404 Not Found. Download of other (older) patches seem to work fine. Martin.

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Paul
French, David wrote: Hey, I apologize if this was already asked and I missed this before, but what is going to happen to PCA when sunsolve is retired?I just got an email saying it is being retired later this year and site decommissioned. Since pca uses sunsolve for downloads, how will that

Re: [pca] Sunsolve retirement

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Paul
French, David wrote: Hey, I apologize if this was already asked and I missed this before, but what is going to happen to PCA when sunsolve is retired?I just got an email saying it is being retired later this year and site decommissioned. Since pca uses sunsolve for downloads, how will that

Re: [pca] Kernel Patch 141444-09 and undefined symbols

2010-10-12 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: A PCA user reported problems with kernel patch 141444-09 and undefined symbol errors on reboot after patch installation. Just for the archives: The problem turned out to be not directly connected to PCA or patch installation. The OS installation image didn't include

Re: [pca] New to PCA, some questions

2010-10-12 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Raphael, Welcome to a new prospective PCA user! :) Does anyone know if Oracle will continue to release that file publicly and for free? As I understand, PCA relies heavily on the xref file, so if Oracle will no longer publish it, what would that mean for PCA? Would it be possible to

Re: [pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Paul
Diana Orrick schrieb: Any suggestions on how to determine if the patching is progressing at all? I guess you could use truss -f -p PID on the PID of the patchadd process to see what's going on. If you have to interrupt the patch installation process, the only good thing is that PCA is

[pca] Kernel Patch 141444-09 and undefined symbols

2010-10-05 Thread Martin Paul
A PCA user reported problems with kernel patch 141444-09 and undefined symbol errors on reboot after patch installation. The problem seems to be reproducible: # patchadd 141444-09 # init 6 ... SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141444-09 64-bit Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All

[pca] patchdiag.xref from Mar 31st, 2009

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Paul
I've been asked for a copy of patchdiag.xref from the date before the Solaris 8 Vintage support has been introduced. I don't have one myself, can anybody provide a copy (by personal e-mail)? I guess there should be a: ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Mar/31/09 ## but anything a

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref from Mar 31st, 2009

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: I've been asked for a copy of patchdiag.xref from the date before the Solaris 8 Vintage support has been introduced. I don't have one myself, can anybody provide a copy (by personal e-mail)? Got it, thanks to Dagobert and Rajiv! Martin.

Re: [pca] Problems with latest patchdiag.xref

2010-09-17 Thread Martin Paul
Richard Skelton wrote: While testing my pca wrapper for my proxy the new Macromedia Flash Player Plugin Patch is failing to download:- Same here. All patches which are new in today's patchdiag.xref do not exist on SunSolve (yet). The Patchfinder doesn't find them either. Maybe they got

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Martin Paul
And here we go again. Can't even get patchdiag.xref this time: Resolving sunsolve.sun.com... 192.18.108.40 Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected. ^C Martin.

Re: [pca] Solaris Update Patch Bundle updates /etc/release

2010-09-06 Thread Martin Paul
Rajiv Gunja wrote: That was one of the hurdles I met when I wanted to get php, mysql and apache on my U4 server. The SUN package would not install, as it looked at /etc/release and did not take into consideration that the U4 was patched to U8 level. Oh, I didn't know that. For that using the

Re: [pca] download problems

2010-09-06 Thread Martin Paul
Dennis Clarke wrote: Personally I paid money for my support and if I can not get a damn patch that is a breech of contract. I understand your anger, but I'm afraid that the most probable reaction to that would be an immediate stop of Oracle's support for the automatic hands-off patch

Re: [pca] Solaris Update Patch Bundle updates /etc/release

2010-09-03 Thread Martin Paul
Rajiv Gunja wrote: Interesting, will look into that bundle and may be add the patch using a wrapper, only if the requirement is satisfied. What do you think? Should I add it via wrapper? Do not know if you want to handle it via pca. I'm not sure how I could handle that in pca. As the relevant

[pca] download problems

2010-08-30 Thread Martin Paul
Hi, Just FYO - I've been having troubles to download any patch from SunSolve in the last 5-6 hours. I assume it's a general problem with the server once again. Martin.

Re: [pca] Quarterly CPU and the xref

2010-08-06 Thread Martin Paul
Craig Bell wrote: Q: How do I prove that I applied fixes for all vulnerabilities mentioned in the CPU? Is it reasonable to expect transparent documentation? I just saw that link in a comment from Gerry Haskins on his blog entry you mentioned:

Re: [pca] 124867-15 fails dependency check

2010-08-06 Thread Martin Paul
Hi David, It looks as though the latest revision of this patch has an error in the dependency checking: Can you show the complete pca command (and possible ignore settings in pca configuration files) you used which caused the error? Comparing it with the rev-14 patch highlights the

Re: [pca] 124867-15 fails dependency check

2010-08-06 Thread Martin Paul
David Gameau wrote: Ah, my apologies here, my diff-explanation wasn't very clear. It appears that an entry in the pkginfo has changed between 124867-14 and -15: 124867-14: SUNW_REQUIRES=124861-07 126495-03 124867-15: SUNW_REQUIRES='124861-07 126495-03' which does seem to match up

Re: [pca] pca ignoring .pca file??

2010-08-05 Thread Martin Paul
jaear...@colby.edu wrote: It seems like pca is ignoring/missing the .pca file in my home directory. Observe: ... CWD: /export/home/admin/jaearick Found /usr/sfw/bin/wget (1.12, 11200, https) You're right, it doesn't find any config files. It would show up like in this sample output: CWD:

Re: [pca] Error 403: Forbidden

2010-08-04 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: Hmm.. failing to download a patch started few hours ago. I were able to download this morning. Something just changed that anyone is aware of in oracle side with patches ? The SunSolve server seems to be in a bad state again. I do get 503 Service

Re: [pca] Error 403: Forbidden

2010-08-04 Thread Martin Paul
Asif Iqbal wrote: Patch IR CR RSB Age Synopsis -- -- - -- --- --- --- 140843 -- 01 -S- 274 SunOS 5.8: /usr/sbin/ntpq patch That's a patch for Solaris 8, it fails for me, too. You need a special (and expensive) Vintage Patch support

Re: [pca] Error 403: Forbidden

2010-08-04 Thread Martin Paul
Asif Iqbal wrote: No. I knew about vintage patches, just did not connect the dot. However I posted another email about 503 error on solaris 10. Yes, we're talking about two different problems here. One of them is SunSolve being in a bad state, returning Error 503: Service Unavailable. This

[pca] New release: 20100727-01

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Paul
A new release of PCA has just been published. Here's a list of new features and changes: * Skip reading of input files only when --readme is the sole action * Do not show cleartext/base64 user/passwd in debug output * Move pca-proxy-debug.txt from /tmp to /var/tmp * Whitelist: add 138261,

Re: [pca] pca, wget, openssl 1.0.0a -- no go

2010-07-26 Thread Martin Paul
Just to let you know - I've exchanged private mails with Jeff, and he fixed the problem by dumping his local version of wget and installing SUNWwgetr/SUNWwgetu on all Solaris boxes. So he's using /usr/sfw/bin/wget now, and everything works. Martin.

Re: [pca] SunRay Sparc patch shows up on X86 again :-(

2010-07-26 Thread Martin Paul
Richard, Another case of incorrect patch metadata in the patchdiag.xref file. Thanks for the report - I added a fix for 140993/140994 to the current development release of pca (20100726-01). This one should show the sparc/x86 patches correctly. Martin.

Re: [pca] unable to download GNOME Desktop Patch

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Paul
Dominique Frise schrieb: This morning (10:20:08 AM CEST), we are unable to download following patches: 122212-41 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME Desktop Patch and 122213-41 GNOME 2.6.0_x86: GNOME Desktop Patch Same here - all new patches from today failed to download. Maybe they weren't pushed out to

Re: [pca] unable to download GNOME Desktop Patch

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Paul
Dagobert Michelsen schrieb: As passwords have been pasted repeatedly here by mistake I suggest replacing it with asterisks in the output. It's already fixed in the development version of pca, and will show up in the next official release as well. Martin.

Re: [pca] Downloading patches hangs.

2010-07-16 Thread Martin Paul
Glenn Satchell wrote: It's almost impossible to tell. Akamai can use IP addresses within the ISP's range to host the Akamai services. There's must be thousands or tens of thousands of Akamai hosts worldwide. I see, thanks. The ones I usually get (193.170.140.71, 193.170.140.79) are at least

[pca] [Fwd: Unbundled patches showing up when listing missing security patches]

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Paul
For some reason the list management software sent me this message as a bounce, without actually sending it out to the list. So I'm forwarding it here: Original Message Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:49:41 -0400 From: Jeff variver...@gmail.com Not sure if this is a bug or a

Re: [pca] [Fwd: Unbundled patches showing up when listing missing security patches]

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Paul
Jeff wrote: Thanks Martin. An example of the patches I saw is 138135-01. In my case, these are patches that are associated with packages that are part of another Sun product but are not part of the OS, or at least I assume they are, even though I don't see a package associated with that patch

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Paul
Diana Orrick wrote: Oracle Sunsolve appears to be down/unaccessible/incredibly slow...again. Yes, I've seen hangs this morning, too. Same experience at Memorial Day weekend... Yes, it seems as it's mostly weekends when the problems show up - I've experienced download issues on the last

Re: [pca] PCA not working since Oracle buy out.

2010-06-29 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Jürgen, similar behaviour here (de), pca download failed ( 403 You are not entitled to retrieve this content.) As you've done the usual checks and everything looks OK, I guess only Oracle Support or Don will be able to help here. [not being pedantic but: send/log username/password as

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
I still have problems downloading files from https://sunsolve.sun.com/. Right now, every attempt to download a patch with pca hangs for about 90 seconds before sunsolve answers: Mon Jun 28 09:42:24 2010: Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected. Mon Jun 28 09:43:56 2010:

Re: [pca] PCA not working since Oracle buy out.

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
Techie wrote: My PCA is no longer working since the Oracle buy out of SUN. I went directly to SUNSOLVE and I cannot download directly from there either. First thing to check is whether your contract number is listed correctly in the Update Account section on SunSolve. Ensure that you have the

Re: [pca] patchiad.xref file moved out?

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: i was been unable to download since todays morning patchdiag.xref file, so i've tried it by hand via accessing For a manual download of patchdiag.xref, better do that: - Go to http://sunsolve.sun.com/ in your browser - Select Patches and Updates - Click on The

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Don, There was an issue on one of the SunSolve servers fixed and hour or so ago. Can you confirm that you are no longer having issues downloading patches via http or https now please? The downloads I tried now all worked, but sunsolve.sun.com is still slow and it takes 10-30 seconds

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
Jeff Tejnecky schrieb: If I download through pca, I see in the verbose output a couple of redirects before it downloads what looks like a sunsolve authentication page. Anybody having this problem? That's usually pointing at the Sun Online Account not being valid (anymore). Can you login

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Don, I just checked this out and all appears to be working fine for me; longest delay was about 7 seconds... The delays have gone down to a similar maximum here, so I guess it's fine now. Thanks, Martin.

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Paul
Any access to https://sunsolve.sun.com/ via wget or pca is hanging once again for me this morning, nothing after wget's: Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:443... connected. ^C Martin.

Re: [pca] sunsolve https not working?

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: Any access to https://sunsolve.sun.com/ via wget or pca is hanging once again for me this morning ... ... but since about an hour ago, everything looks fine again. Martin.

Re: [pca] Failed (Error 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content.)

2010-06-18 Thread Martin Paul
Kirk Barry wrote: It has been probably been over a month since I last used PCA. I saw the latest news and updated PCA. We do have a contract, and my account seems to be in order. I can manually download the recommended patch clusters. I second Bill's suggestion to re-check your settings

Re: [pca] New Sun policy on security/recommended patch versions

2010-06-18 Thread Martin Paul
Craig Bell wrote: Martin Paul wrote: I tend to see missingr as a modifier to missing, which gets the current revision. If the r suffix becomes minimal, then missingr seems ambiguous. Now what about s, which always promotes? Xref is yet more inconsistent... Another idea would be to add

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Paul
Glen Gunselman wrote: Do not have the old patchdiag.xref file but can reproduce. The problem has been fixed in the current development release of pca. /var/tmp/pca --pretend /var/tmp/patchlist.txt --patchdir=/var/tmp/pcatmp --safe --readme Out of interest - is there a reason why you do

Re: [pca] New Sun policy on security/recommended patch versions

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Paul
Paul B. Henson wrote: I was thinking about the new policy on only patch versions actually containing a new fix being marked security/recommened, rather than the most recent version. My understanding is .. .. correct. Just be aware that the change only affects the Recommended flag, making

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

2010-06-16 Thread Martin Paul
Glen, Your conclusion maybe correct but your explanation does not fit my recent experience: I think that's a completely different problem. The patch-IDs listed by David French are definitely of the NOT FOUND type I described. On June 10th I received the same error (Using

Re: [pca] Query latest pca and patchdiag.xref file (errors?)

2010-06-16 Thread Martin Paul
Glen, If you can reproduce the problems, re-run pca with --debug and send me the output. Do not have the old patchdiag.xref file but can reproduce. Here's the console output for the first patch: Thanks, and sorry that I didn't try it on my own at first - I can reproduce the issue. It's

[pca] New release: 20100607-01

2010-06-07 Thread Martin Paul
A new release of PCA has just been published. Here's a list of new features and changes: * Pass on Recommended status from obsolete patches/revisions * Fix handling of non-standard lines in patchdiag.xref * Add specifier %o for --format to show the OS column from xref * Fix handling of

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
Alexander Skwar wrote: 2010/5/31 Martin Paul mar...@par.univie.ac.at: dpecka wrote: i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. Same here. SunSolve is unresponsive, access to e.g. https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref via the browser

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: btw, i investigated a bit because i have found, that in .xref file is in position #7 and #8 (indexed from zero) architecture or so .. at http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/ you can check and find wanted patches by using several more filters which pca.pl doesn't know like above

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: pca does not use column #7 to match patches to the installed OS release, as this information has proven to be unreliable in the past. Some patches have been described as Unbundled although they applied to e.g. Solaris 10. Therefore, pca uses the information about the included

Re: [pca] Recommended flag changes

2010-05-21 Thread Martin Paul
Craig Bell wrote: Gerry Haskins writes about upcoming refinements to the Recommended flag: As stated in the article, Gerry Haskins and Don O'Malley have provided details about the planned changes to me beforehand. We've had some discussions in the last two weeks, and after working out the

Re: [pca] support contract expired, need to renew/buy new, where?

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Paul
Don Jackson schrieb: Hope nobody else has a contract expire until this gets resolved…. I do, and my experience is similar. My contract expires by the end of May. So I asked for a quote two months ahead at the end of March, which I received two days later, with about the same price as before.

[pca] no downloads

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Paul
Just FYI - patch downloads fail for me this morning, sometimes with 503 Service Unavailable, sometimes with 401 Unauthorized. Seems as if the problem is being worked on: http://twitter.com/SunSolve says: Log-in issues are happening at present on SunSolve. Changes to internal network

Re: [pca] Fun with entitlement again

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Jan, Jan Holzhueter wrote: There is a new entitlement acording to: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunSolve/How+Entitlement+Works#entitlements You need HardwareUpdates - Allows access to firmware,drivers, to get firmware. Thanks for the link! I don't have that :( Same here. The funny

Re: [pca] Listing of Solaris 9 missing patches shown on Solaris 10 box

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Gurugunti, Mahesh wrote: I list the missing recommended /security patches on Solaris 10 using pca, but the list shows Solaris 9 missing patches. Have you - or someone else with the root password - manually installed packages from the Solaris 9 distribution on this Solaris 10 system? As pca

Re: [pca] rebuild patch level

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Hi, Ihsan Dogan wrote: Is it possible to install only the missing patches on host a, which are installed on host b? A flash archive, as suggested by Michele, is definitely the best way to go. If that's not an option, you can get a list of all patches installed on host b (in the correct

Re: [pca] Fun with entitlement again

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Jan Holzhueter wrote: Martin Paul wrote: and I've heard that it may cost like 20% of the price of the machine, per year. It's not that much. I read 12% for Hard- and Software and 8% for Software only. But I still need to see a real price. Better, but still about half the machine price

Re: [pca] Listing of Solaris 9 missing patches shown on Solaris 10 box

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Gurugunti, Mahesh wrote: Find attached the output files. Thanks. The pkginfo output shows what I was suspecting - you have a whole lot of Solaris 9 packages installed on this system, for whatever reason. Here's an example - on Solaris 9 the 32/64bit binaries were split into two packages:

Re: [pca] Quarterly patch schedule

2010-04-13 Thread Martin Paul
I've been assured by a trustworthy source that this CPU (Critical Patch Update) will be an additional service, and not replace the normal patch publishing cycle. Hear my sigh of relief! :) Martin.

[pca] Fwd: patchdiag.xref request

2010-04-06 Thread Martin Paul
I've been asked for a certain past copy of patchdiag.xref, which I don't have. Can anybody who does have a version that fits the timeframe send it to Bill? Thanks, Martin. Original Message From: Bill Pilarinos b...@pilarinos.com I would need a copy of the patchdiag.xref

Re: [pca] 141876-05 SunOS 5.10: emlxs patch query (Was Re: patch issue)

2010-03-31 Thread Martin Paul
Glenn Satchell wrote: Here's where it got that info, so some script or something changed the contents of the file without updating the package info: AFAIK, that's caused by the installation of 141876 itself. It comes with a script (i.emlxsconf) which merges changes into the existing

Re: [pca] 137137: Unsupported root filesystem

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: Myers, Mike wrote: I ran into this and spent some time tracking it down: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5421069messageID=10891459 Congratulations on isolating this bug. I'm sure you had a lot of fun with 12-06 :) It's a good example why a programmer

Re: [pca] 141876-05 SunOS 5.10: emlxs patch query (Was Re: patch issue)

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Paul
Michael Jackson wrote: Nothing I read in the readme argued whether I should care about the failed file verification. There's nothing in the patch README, because the message comes from pca's --safe option. It's a false positive which can be ignored, ie. simply install the patch without

Re: [pca] 141876-05 SunOS 5.10: emlxs patch query (Was Re: patch issue)

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Paul
Michael Jackson wrote: Hi Martin: Wasn't a disguised dig either at Don or yourself; Just that the readme and googling left me none the wiser. Sorry if my reply might have sounded rude - it wasn't meant to be. Sometimes translations from german to english by a non-native speaker end up like

Re: [pca] 403 errors even with valid contract

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: Glen Gunselman wrote: I see some comments at the bottom of http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunSolve/How+Entitlement+Works indicating problems with entitlements after recent changes on Sun's end ... Thanks for pointing me at this - I seem to have the same problem as reported

Re: [pca] pca and -R

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Paul
French, David wrote: Anyway, I started patching the current BE with this patch before running the pca -R version for the alternate BE.I wanted others to know in case they were also doing pca patching of alternate BE's under LU, or using -R in general. Good advice - thanks! Martin, I

Re: [pca] man page tweaks

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Paul
Hi, Dennis Clarke wrote: I think you just need to edit the man page slightly : You're right - your version of the man page header/footer makes much more sense. I've adapted my script with the required options for pod2man to create output as you proposed. The man pages available on pca's

Re: [pca] 403 errors even with valid contract

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Paul
Dennis Clarke wrote: Do you have a support contract for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 also ? As I said - the contract I'm talking about doesn't mention a Solaris version anywhere (nor a term like Solaris subscription or else which I can find on Sun's support site). It's well possible that some

Re: [pca] Patch 142901-05: installation woes

2010-03-22 Thread Martin Paul
Scott A. Severtson wrote: Good news, everyone! We've been assigned to a new support engineer (after much complaining), who states: We do support PCA as a patching tool, by the way. This change in mind might also be connected to me getting in contact with Gerry Haskins right after your

[pca] New release: 20100309-02

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Paul
A new release of PCA has just been published. Here's a list of new features and changes: * Show timing information and patch counts during patch installation * Do not recommend/require reboot when noreboot option is used * Work better on non-Solaris machines (e.g. Linux) * Documentation: A

Re: [pca] Patch 142901-05: installation woes

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Paul
Scott A. Severtson wrote: Per Sun's support engineer: PCA is not a supported way to apply patches and it must be used at the user's own risk. But patchadd is a supported way to apply patches, and that's exactly what's being used by PCA. PCA never tried to install patches on its own,

Re: [pca] patch readme consistency

2010-03-04 Thread Martin Paul
Russ Oliver wrote: When going through patch readmes, I'm curious to know if the information for each note stays the same across patches, or if they can be updated on each patch. It seems, from what I've noticed, that if say, patch-07 has 10 notes with it, those same 10 notes are identical for

Re: [pca] 137137: Unsupported root filesystem

2010-03-04 Thread Martin Paul
Myers, Mike wrote: I ran into this and spent some time tracking it down: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5421069messageID=10891459 Congratulations on isolating this bug. I'm sure you had a lot of fun with 12-06 :) It's a good example why a programmer shouldn't rely on any

Re: [pca] specifying alternate name for patchdiag.xref file?

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Paul
Hello, I keep local copies of the patchdiag.xref file. I'd like to append the date or some other unique string to each such patchdiag.xref filename. Then, when I am installing a new machine, I would like to pull/specify a specific patchdiag.xref file to be used for that machine (tagged/QA'ed

Re: [pca] Considering PCA - no internet access on network

2010-03-01 Thread Martin Paul
Hi Beth, Beth Morin bethnda...@cox.net wrote: Our network has NO internet access so we have to sneaker net our patches into the system. PCA is of good use in such an environment. I have been reading a bit about PCA and see that you can use a local server. Would it be reasonable to say that

Re: [pca] view required PROM updates?

2010-02-26 Thread Martin Paul
John Lyman wrote: Is there a way to view required PROM updates along with missing patches? Eric and Glenn are correct - the only bit of information that pca could use to correlate firmware patches with a certain machine is the textual description of the patch. This might look simple at

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