[SunHELP] Downloading patches

[Jim Pennino]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:02:51PM -0400, Simoncini, Matthew wrote:
> Hello gurus,
> 
> I have a large number of patches to install on several different servers,
> mostly Solaris 2.6 systems. I've thought about how to get all the patches
> without a lot of manual effort and couldn't come up with any ideas except to
> manually ftp these patches from sunsolve. I've looked into the Sun Patch
> Manager utility and wonder if that's the solution or could I write a script
> to get the patches from SunSolve. Given all the knowledgeable people on this
> list, I'm sure someone has come up with a way to make this task easier. Does
> anyone have a solution that they use that they'd be willing to share?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Matthew Simoncini
> Boston Scientific / Accenture
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For Solaris 6, 7 and 8 go to ftp://ftp.cs.duke.edu/pub/PatchReport/index.html
and download PatchReport.

Install it on all your machines so you can see what patches each machine
needs.

Run it to download needed patches. There's a flag in there to not download
what you already have.

-- 
Jim Pennino