[geeks] Solaris 10 patching...

[Brian Dunbar]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 22:51 , Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:22:19PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>>> What's the best current method of getting Solaris patches?
>>> IIRC, pprosvc -d
>>
>> pprosvc has been retired and you're now supposed to use smpatch.
>>
>> I didn't know about pprosvc until your email - I went to read the man
>> page
>> and it says "use smpatch instead" - and this is on Sol9 even.
> 
> Yes, and both want you to use a GUI program to configure them, which is
> not an option for my headless Dell.  I think the GUI program also
> expects a paid account for some reason.

We use smpatch at work and don't use a GUI to configure it.  Am I
missing something that I could be doing different?


Brian Dunbar


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