I asked: > I have a modified install_cluster that I built back in the days of > Solaris 2.6 that deletes patches with an error code 2 or 8 so that when > the cluster is done, the only patches left are the ones that had issues. > This worked fine with Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9. With Solaris 10, sun changed > the installpatch shell script to a binary. This should not have mattered, > but a lot of patches now fail with the error code of 1. According to the > patchadd shell script, error code 1 is a patchadd usage error. (!??!!!) > I rather doubt that Sun would release the vast majority of their patches in > the 10_Recommended cluster with patch spinning errors. Can anyone identify > why about 70% of my patches fail with this error? Some do error with a > 2 or 8, so that functionality is still preserved in Solaris 10. I never > had an error code 1 on any previous OS installation. > > TIA, and I will summarize. The answer: Sun changed the way patchadd works to support multiple zones on a Solaris 10 server. If you don't have multiple zones on a server (like me) you can add the -t flag to patchadd to get the former usage from the script. With the -t flag added, all is working properly. Thanks to Martin Paul <martin@par.univie.ac.at> Tom Crummey <tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk> as well as Michel Nguyen <MNguyen@mediagrif.com> Michael Hocke <michael.hocke@nyu.edu> Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com> brian zuk <brian.zuk@gmail.com> Anthony D'Atri <aad@beak.org> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that | | cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. | | (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. | | http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow | +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Apr 3 16:25:15 2007
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