topic Re: Patch management in Operating System - HP-UX

Patch management

khilari — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:35:38 GMT

Hi people, well i downloaded patch PHCO_34529 the sd-ux cumulative one. I downloaded it as http and the ftp'd into the unix box. Now, when i try doing an swinstall on it i get there is no depot on that location. How do i make a depot for this.
If i had the .tar download i could have made a depot but having an http download how do i install it.
Thanks.

Re: Patch management

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:39:19 GMT

First make sure when you ftp'ed it that yourt specified a binary transfer. Next cd to whatever directory your ftp'ed the file, e.g. /tmp. Next "sh PHCO_34529". This will extract a documentation file PHCO_34529.txt and a .depot file, PHCO_34529.depot. You then run swinstall -s /tmp/PHCO_34529.depot.

Re: Patch management

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:39:29 GMT

First make sure when you ftp'ed it that you specified a binary transfer. Next cd to whatever directory your ftp'ed the file, e.g. /tmp. Next "sh PHCO_34529". This will extract a documentation file PHCO_34529.txt and a .depot file, PHCO_34529.depot. You then run swinstall -s /tmp/PHCO_34529.depot.

Re: Patch management

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:39:40 GMT

First make sure when you ftp'ed it that you specified a binary transfer. Next cd to whatever directory you ftp'ed the file, e.g. /tmp. Next "sh PHCO_34529". This will extract a documentation file PHCO_34529.txt and a .depot file, PHCO_34529.depot. You then run swinstall -s /tmp/PHCO_34529.depot.

Re: Patch management

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:51:26 GMT

Khilari,

Probably you missed the -s option on swinstall, if you do not set that option, swinstall will look the file in the default directory and It will not find it there.

-s source " Specifies the source depot (or tape) from which software is installed or copied."

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: Patch management

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:04:21 GMT

Shalom,

The most common cause has been triple identified by A. Clay.

The download may have terminated.

Quick single patch procedure.

1) Consider downloading using a browser on the system. This prevents ascii flubs. Many ftp clients default to ascii and patches come from HP's website in a tar(binary) format.

2)Be sure to do the ftp transfer as binary

3) make sure UNIX95 is not set.

4) make sure the swagentd daemon is running.

5) Les say the patch is in /tmp sh PHCO_34529

6) Now you have two files. read the .text, second is the depot PHCO_34529.depot

7)swinstall -s /tmp/PHCO_34529.depot \*

Things to think about:
The file may just be lost in the home directory of the user that uploaded it. Hopefully thats not root. root ftp should not be permitted.

SEP

Re: Patch management

NMory — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:59:38 GMT

Khilari:

Depending on your selection your download may include a script that creates a depot for you.

If not, use swinstall to check what depots are registered in your server, and use that directory as a depot.

If there are no depots registered then you must register one in order to install the patch.

LN

Re: Patch management

NMory — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:06:18 GMT

You can use this document as a reference:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&prevQueryString=&mode=text&searchString=KBRC00015596&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&dateRange=all

LN