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Operating Systems Solaris How to determine most recent Solaris 8 patch? Post 53864 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 27th of July 2004 10:35:07 AM
Old 07-27-2004
Showrev -p works like you said, you get all the patches. I generally only use it by doing something like showrev -p | grep patchnumber to look up a specific patch.

Sun has patch management tools on their website. You will probably want to check those out, although some of their stuff requires that you have a Sun maintenance contract. Try sunsolve.sun.com and see what you find.

To find out the kernel patch level you can use uname -a. It will have in there 108528-27 or something like that. 108528 is the Solaris 8 kernel patch and 27 (or whatever you get) is the rev.

You may want to just download the latest Solaris 8 recommended patchset and install that to get all the recommended and critical patches up to date at once.
 

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install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

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install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system SYNOPSIS
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