From: A. Mahendra Rajah (Mahendra.Rajah@URegina.CA)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 11:47:46 EDT
I had an amusing experience with the installtion of this
patch and I thought that I would share it with you all.
After upgrading my ES40 and DS20 AlphaServers from Tru64
v5.1a to v5.1b over this past weekend, I installed Patch
kit #1 and then attemped to install Patch kit 17362 which
was t64v51bb1-c0006700-17362-es-20030313.tar. The
attempts were amusing.
The exact same thing happened on both systems:
1) cd to where the patch file was extracted to.
2) ./dupatch
3) Asks for top level directory of patch distribution.
Answer with '.' .
4) Churns a few CPU cycles and then comes back with the
complaint that
directory /var/tmp/patch### exists
where ### is some arbitrary number.
5) Having seen this before in v5.1a, I did this:
mv /usr/sbin/dupatch /usr/sbin/dupatch.bad
6) ./dupatch
7) Asks the same question in #3 again, and then
complains that a dupatch utility is required
to complete the patch install. FAIR !!!
8) mv /usr/sbin/dupatch.bad /usr/sbin/dupatch
9) ./dupatch
PROCEEDS without any complaints !!!!
Strange, huh?
-- mahendra
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A. Mahendra Rajah Email: Mahendra.Rajah@URegina.CA
Tru64 UNIX Systems Manager Phone: (306) 585-4496
Dept. of Computing Services FAX: (306) 337-2324
University of Regina,
Regina, Sask., S4S 0A2
Canada.
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