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1. Solaris
Hi Guys,
I am doing L1 Level support for Solaris Platform. Eg. User Management, File system , Print management and Job monitoring.
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2. HP-UX
HI all,
As per the audit policy, patch has to be apply periodically, but in my scenerio, it has been applied lastly in the year 2010.
Using HP UX 11.11, 11.21 and 11.31
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3. Solaris
Hello Friends..
I have not tried anything related to Solaris patch and wish to learn more about it. I just wanted to try the patchadd and patchrm commands and how they work, just for educational purpose. I tried to download Solaris 10 patches, it asked me to register at sunsolve.com and i... (5 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
I've inherited about 10 RHEL 3 boxes that are located in Europe behind a corporate firewall with no access to rhn.redhat.com
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5. Solaris
I have found 3 different tools to patch Solaris 9:
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Patch Check Advanced
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Sun Connection
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6. Linux
I was wondering how everyone else manages patching/upgrades for apache.
Latest doesnt mean greatest, we typically dont install the newest patches for our OS's. We typically run 3-6 months behind, to let fixes get fixed before installing them.
Does anyone here have a written detailed plan... (0 Replies)
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7. Linux
Does anyone know who to centrally manage the distribution and application of patches to multiple Linux platforms ? Is there software for this ? (0 Replies)
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HWINFO(8) System configuration HWINFO(8)
NAME
hwinfo - probe for hardware
SYNOPSIS
hwinfo [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used
for support.
OPTIONS
--debug level
Set debug level. The debug info is shown only in the log file. If you specify a log file, the debug level is implicitly set to a
reasonable value.
--dump-db n
Dump hardware data base, n is either 0 for the external data base, or 1 for the internal data base.
--help Print a usage and exit.
--log logfile
Write info to logfile.
--short
Just a short listing.
--version
Show libhd version.
--<hwitem>
Probe for the particular hardware item. Available hardware items are: all, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera, cdrom,
chipcard, cpu, disk, dsl, dvb, fingerprint, floppy, framebuffer, gfxcard, hub, ide, isapnp, isdn, joystick, keyboard, memory, modem,
monitor, mouse, netcard, network, partition, pci, pcmcia, pcmcia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, scanner, scsi, smp, sound, storage-ctrl, sys,
tape, tv, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe, wlan, and zip.
BUGS
Not all hardware can be detected.
AUTHOR
Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de> - hwinfo
Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> - manual page
SEE ALSO
discover(8).
hwinfo January 2003 HWINFO(8)
