[rescue] Sun's new policy sucks...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:27:44AM -0400, William Enestvedt wrote:
>    Heck, I have a contract, and couldn't even get the Recommended
> cluster for Solaris 8 last night via http from the SunSolve web site,
> though individual patches would download. They shut off ftp some time
> ago, I think, which bugs me.
> -wde

They just reorganized.  ftp to sunsolve.sun.com gives you teh same stuff
as http://patches.sun.com.

mrbill at ohno:~> ftp
ftp> open sunsolve.sun.com
Connected to sunsolve.sun.com.
220 scfe280r2 FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(3) Mon Oct 4 22:38:13 PDT 2004) ready.
Name (sunsolve.sun.com:mrbill): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-###########################################################
230-ATTENTION:
230-Downloading anything from this site indicates implicit compliance with
230-the terms and conditions set forth in the README document found at:
230-ftp://patches.sun.com/README
230-
230-This FTP site functions as a standard, anonymous FTP server.
230-
230-Access to non-public patches (available only to Sun customers
230-with an active Sun Support contract) is NO LONGER available via FTP. 
230-To access non-public patches, please visit SunSolve's HTTP website:
230-http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patchpage
230-All patch revisions for public patches are available in both signed and
230-unsigned format.
230-
230-Please note that the directory structure for FTP has changed. For
230-information on the new structure, please visit:
230-ftp://patches.sun.com/DIRECTORY
230-###########################################################
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Tue Aug 31 19:19:51 2004 - 218 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>                                                                            

Wait a minute, I guess you are right - no more contract patches via FTP.

That blows.

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas