June 2008
Monthly Archive
Apply Sun Packages Manually
admin 08 Jun 2008 | : IT Stuff, Solaris
To apply Sun packages manually use the pkgadd command
pkgadd -d full-path-to-package package-name
eg.
pkgadd -d /cdrom/Sol10/pkg SUNWlucfg
Applying Signed Patches (.jar) to Solaris
admin 08 Jun 2008 | : IT Stuff, Solaris
The Sun Update Manger usually downloads patches to ⁄var⁄sadm⁄spool as .jar files but cannot always apply the patches from the GUI. In this case you may need to open a terminal window and use:
patchadd [-n] [-B full-path-to-backout-directory -M full-path-patch-directory patch-file-name
where:
-n … do not check the patch signing
-B … backout directory. This can be omitted if you don’t ever want to back out of a patch!!
-M … path to location of patch. ⁄var⁄sadm⁄spool is the default location so can be omitted if that is where the patch file is located.eg.
patchadd -n -B ⁄var⁄sadm⁄backout -M ⁄var⁄sadm⁄spool 128307-04.jar
“man patchadd” is your friend.
