I previously discussed using pca to get security updates. One thing I didn’t realize at the time was pca’s ability to list or install only the patches that are classified as security and reliability updates. This ability to filter patches is accomplished by adding the “r” (reliability updates) or “s” (security updates) character to one [...]
I applied the latest set of patches to my x86 Solaris 10 server this morning, and after the server was rebooted I noticed that my zones didn’t start. When I ran the zoneadm utility with the “list” option, all of the zones were in the “installed” state (they should be in the running state since [...]
I wrote about pca a few weeks back, and absolutely love the capabilities it brings to the table. To keep my servers up date with the latest security patches, I added the following cron job to extract security patches from the pca output, and E-mail them to my account: 0 0 * * * pca [...]
I have written repeatedly about the problems with the Solaris patch tools, and decided to test out the pca utility after Chris and Frank recommended it so highly. Pca is not only an awesome patching tool, but it blows away everything that is currently offered by Sun (pca has yet to throw Java exceptions and [...]
After several frustrating days of debugging smpatch, I finally found a way to get it working on my X64 Solaris 10 server. I am not 100% certain why this fixed my problem, and since I don’t have access to the smpatch source code I will probably never know. To recap the problem, I was able [...]
I have mentioned several problems with Sun’s smpatch utility in the past few blog entries, and it looks like I hit another nasty bug. The sconadm utility allows me to register a server: $ sconadm register -a -r RegistrationProfile sconadm is running Authenticating user … finish registration! But when I run the smpatch utility to [...]
