From: Nicole Skyrca (nskyrca@syr.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 16:36:59 EDT
Hi,
I only recieved one reply on this subject, from Darren Dunham, which I've
included.
I have decided not to patch the Solaris 2.5.1 machines in question, since we
want to try to upgrade everything to Solaris 8 soon anyways.
Thanks for your help!
Nicole
Darren Dunham:
If you have 'patchadd' (which is in Solaris 2.6 and up I believe) this
is mentioned in the man page for it..
NOTES
To successfully install a patch to a client or server,
patchadd must be issued twice, once with the -R option and
once with the -S option. This guarantees that the patch is
installed to both the /usr and root partitions. This is
necessary if there are both /usr and root packages in the
patch.
The -S option lets you apply the patch on the server just to the
exported /usr for the clients.
You'd have to investigate the patchadd script options for the patch
you're interested in applying. It may support the same options.
Original Post
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Hello,
I have to patch a few Solaris 2.5.1 systems that have / and var mounted from
local disks, and /usr (and everything else) nfs mounted from remote machines.
Has anyone ever patched systems setup like this before? How does it handle
the files that are supposed to be installed in /usr? Can you still patch the
kernel and files in /?
Here's an example of the df output.
df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 239943 92034 123919 43% /
doink:/usr 770584 620200 73336 90% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4 96023 10074 76349 12% /var
swap 154736 8 154728 1% /tmp
/cachefs/opt/.cfs_mnt_points/doink:_opt
1636568 846928 625992 58% /opt
/cachefs/opt3rdparty/.cfs_mnt_points/javaboy:_opt_3rdparty
7917400 1288184 5837472 19% /opt/3rdparty
/cachefs/usrlocal/.cfs_mnt_points/javaboy:_usr_local
3462288 2037512 1078560 66% /usr/local
homes:/home/u026 138342167 30792918 106165828 23% /home/u026
Thanks,
Nicole
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