You'll want to download the Solaris patches from: http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=home - get yourself an account, and you'll want to at least download the 'Sun Alert Patch Cluster' for your OS, as well as the 'Recommended' patch archive, which usually has a generic title like '10_x86'. I downloaded each archive, put them in /tmp (my /tmp is huge on my servers), and proceeded to unzip them:
From there, you 'cd' into the new directory, and always read the *README files before you start. They have a lot of useful information, and will save you from countless hours of brain strain. You'll also need the passcode in the *README's to continue, so read it. :-p
After you're read the *README, it's usually a matter of running the installer script, which is something like:
Follow the instructions carefully, and write down what you're doing for sanity's sake.
Rebooted the server, the patches stuck. I ran the revision test to see which ones were applied. Quite a lot of them, and it took a long time to patch - 4+ hours. o_O
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All - I want to patch a 10 box with the latest/greatest. From this fun screenshot, I honestly have no idea where to start:
Steer a Solaris/patching n00b in the right direction here? Yes, I've RTFM'ed quite a bit, but the documentation simply has me running in circles. It's not clear which patch you're supposed to download, and why.
You have to choose the patch cluster for the specific OS. Patch cluster are the "recommended" patches.. which ae mandatory. extra patches can be download indivially as well, but you must know he dependencies. only the EIS dvd (from SUN/ SUN partners) will have the whole of extra patches. These will be updated every 3 months
Hi Gurus
I am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 ( sol10 u11) to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same I should follow.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1-rg and sozone2-rg and currently... (1 Reply)
I was installing Solaris-10 Recommended patch Cluster and it came out without installling all patches. I gave a rebooted and tried installing it again, but it seems some lock or something is prevenventing to install further patches. I am not able to figure out and I am struck in between... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a question ? Which all patches need to be applied in single user mode and which all not .Is there any rule all patches need to be applied in /var/tmp.Thanks in advance for answers.:) (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I am new to solaris patching.. while doing the patching do we need to have the root previligies and also need help while doing patching work if the server has veritas on it........
Thanks in advance.......... (10 Replies)
Hello to all, I have a quick question. I am learning Solaris, with Solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. So can I download free patches from the Sun page, I mean with out paying a license. Because It would be a great exercise to patch my installation of Solaris.... (1 Reply)
Hello folks! I appear to be having troubles installing the recommended cluster patch for the Solaris 10 OS!
I am absolutely clueless on where to start with this. I know it's an error with pkgadd and patchadd.
# ./installcluster --s10cluster
Setup .
Solaris 10 SPARC Recommended... (5 Replies)
Hi, we have a problem recently with Sun Fire T200 server, when installing 10_SPARC_EIS-Jul09 patchbundle resulted for 14 hours of outage! Steps, that was done by me is pretty straightforward:
reboot -- -s
./installcluster --s10cluster
Then I made 1 reboot after kernel patch was installed... (10 Replies)
Hi
quick and question for the unix expert here
i downloaded the lastest patch from sun.
i'm ready to patch my production server. should i just patch it as is or go in to init 1 or init S to do the patching.
someone told me that you can just patch the server in init 3 and some other... (2 Replies)