patch policy

From: kabinet@inf.u-szeged.hu
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 16:50:16 EST


Hi Managers!

I asked help few months ago about bug 5077968 (kernel panic during
creation of a directory with quotas on). I appreciate the help was given
by the community...

This bug affected us badly as we run an NFS home share (with quotas on)
on a sparc Solaris 9 box. Fortunately I was warned by an other sysadmin
(who suffered the impact of patch 113073-11) not to apply this
particular patch.

If I understand correctly patch 113073-14 fixes the problem (?).

My question is how to avoid such serios accidents on a production
system? How should I apply recommended patches not to risk the usability
of my system? What is your patch routine?

Thanks for advices,
Krisztian
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