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1. Solaris
I am trying to determine the date of the last patch on a Solaris machine. I know that I can get the last patch name with the uname -a command but that does give me any date info. Any ideas? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tdriley29
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2. Red Hat
HI all,
I need to patch(updated a linux redhat server (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) that it is on production, this server cannot have internet access.
How can I do this patching (update). there is link to download in a cd or something similar.
Any advice it is very welcome
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Discussion started by: carlitospi99
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I am having a text file with the following contents
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File1
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some
page1.txt
text
page.txt
When I sort this file on Red Hat 5, then I get the following output
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File1
###########
page1.txt
page.txt
some (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sarbjit
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I have 2 questions.
I have a file with many rows which has date of the format YYYYMMDD.
1. I need to change the date to that weeks friday date(Ex: 20120716(monday) to 20120720). Satuday/Sunday has to be changed to next week friday date too.
2. After converting the date to... (10 Replies)
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5. Red Hat
Hello
I have been asked to provide a security patch analysis of servers in my environment. For HPUX and Solaris there are tools wich can be loaded onto the servers to do this. However I do not know of one for Redhat . At this point I must mentioned that the Redhat servers are behind a firewall... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dmsmith32
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6. AIX
HI All,
Is it possible to find from An AIX server when a Patch was installed like by using "instfix" with a parameter that shows when was this installed.
Thank You (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sellafrica1
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7. Solaris
Hello everyone
What command I need to use for to know the date about install some patch.
For example I was looking the patch 102530-01 I use the command patchadd -p (the number of the patch) or the command pkginfo -p (the number of the patch) but what command I need to use to know about the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lo-lp-kl
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8. IP Networking
Hello friends I'm running Redhat 9.0 with linux kernel 2.4.20-8 & have iptables version 1.2.7a & encountering a problem that I narrate down.
I need to apply patch to my iptable and netfilter for connection tracking and load balancing that are available in patch-o-matic distribution by netfilter.... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rakesh Ranjan
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone tell me how to get the installation date of a patch? I've done a showrev which I assume tells me if the patch cluster has been installed. It shows...SunOS 5.8 Generic 108528-23 June 2003. I'm assuming June 2003 is the patch release date. Is that right? How can I determine the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kiloflash
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WHAT-PATCH(1) General Commands Manual WHAT-PATCH(1)
NAME
what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses
SYNOPSIS
what-patch [options]
DESCRIPTION
what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.
what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit.
-v Enable verbose mode. This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
details about the patch system if available.
AUTHORS
what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and Daniel Hahler <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
among others. This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.
Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
SEE ALSO
The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems
cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)
DEBIAN
Debian Utilities WHAT-PATCH(1)