topic Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0 in Operating System - HP-UX

easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

Irine Gibilisco — Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:43:05 GMT

HP 9000/D370
HP-UX 11.0
Does anyone have a clean and simple script to replace the original functionality of the 'cleanup' utility, which existed in 10.20 and has all but disappeared in 11.0? All I want to do is remove all superseded patches installed on my machine.

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

RikTytgat — Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:05:43 GMT

Hi,

This functionality is integrated in SD now. Just do a

swmodify -x patch_commit=true PHKL_1234

Hope this helps,
Rik.

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:56:36 GMT

Take a look at this summary;

http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin?h=3&dn=45007&q=cleanup%20for%2011&fh

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

federico_3 — Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:33:32 GMT

Cleanup utility exists even on version 11.00.

Do man cleanup.

federico

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

federico_3 — Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:34:30 GMT

Cleanup utility exists even on version 11.00.

Do man cleanup.

federico

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

marc seguin — Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:15:41 GMT

The command swmodify with patch_commit=true option applies on filesets, not on products.

So, it gives something like :
swmodify -xpatch_commit=true PHSS_1234.*

Re: easy 'cleanup' in HP-UX 11.0

Irine Gibilisco — Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:56:43 GMT

To frederico: Thanks, but did you do the "man cleanup" on 11.0 or try running the "cleanup" utility there? It no longer does what you expect.

To Stefan Farelly and Sequin: Thanks, your recommendation is similar to what I understand from HP documentation... but I am still confused. Assuming that I get a list of superseded patches from "show_patches -s" command, do I then feed the list into the "swmodify" command? In that case, how does commiting of the superseded patches result in removal of their backups in the /var/adm/sw/save area? Wouldn't it instead remove the filesets that were saved prior to the superseded patch's application, thus making it impossible to ever go back To the original set up. It is almost as if I would want to 1) remove the superseding patch 2) remove the superseded patch 3) re-apply the superseding patch, to truly make things work. Am I making too much out of this?