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

Patch info

P.V.Ramesh — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:58:39 GMT

Hi

How can i know the patch information. Also let me know from you how to add/delte a patch.

Re: Patch info

Rajasekhar Raman — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:00:45 GMT

Do you mean, patches installed on the system? If so, type "swlist -l product " to get a list of all software products as well as patches installed on your system.

You can subscribe to Patch Releases for your particular platform the HP support site. They will send you e-mail periodically with all the patches for your system.

-Shekar

Re: Patch info

Pete Randall — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:00:52 GMT

The patch comes with a text file describing it. It is added with swinstall and removed with swremove.

Does that help?

Pete

Re: Patch info

harry d brown jr — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:01:13 GMT

swinstall
swremove

live free or die
harry

Re: Patch info

Sajid_1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:02:51 GMT

# swlist -lfileset | grep PHNE_XXXX

give the patch name there and will tell you the information.

TO install patch:
# swinstall -x options -s /tmp/patch_name.depot

To learn more about a patch, enter your patch number here:
http://support1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

Re: Patch info

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:03:08 GMT

Hi:

'swlist' discloses patch information. For 11.x releases, 'show_patches' provides a front-end with a nicely formatted output. 'check_patches' is also very useful following patch installation which is done with 'swinstall'.

For an excellent discussion of patch management see this white paper:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3578.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patch info

Sajid_1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:03:35 GMT

Also for removing patch:
# swremove

Re: Patch info

Srinivas_14 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:03:51 GMT

Hi Run the follwing command and it will list
all the patches installed on your system.

swlist -l fileset -a patch_state *.*,c=patch | grep -v superseded

Thanks

Re: Patch info

harry d brown jr — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:04:28 GMT

THis might help:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x316efd3f91d3d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/TopSolutions/1,,BR702248!1!questions,00.html

live free or die
harry

Re: Patch info

Dirk Wiedemann — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:07:40 GMT

if you have download a .depot-file of a patch you can do the following:
- tar -xvf name.depot
- cd to the patch-directory
- if swlock-file not exist: touch catalog/swlock
- swinstall -s `pwd`

Dirk

Re: Patch info

P.V.Ramesh — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:29:19 GMT

Hi

Thanks for early reply.

I am expecting a command which gives information about OS it's release and it's patch info.

For example:

In solaris if type

"uname -a"
the output is as follows

SunOS simba 5.5.1 Generic_103640-37 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4.

It includes all the info. If you notice the above the field Generic_103640-37 is patch information.

In this fashion i would like to know which command will provide this information.

I have tried the same command on HP-UX. but it differs.

I will assign the points after getting correct information.

Thanks

Re: Patch info

Pete Randall — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:36:41 GMT

The answer(s) have already been given. Use swlist.

Pete

Re: Patch info

Sajid_1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:39:21 GMT

You can use this:
# swlist (list all installed softwares, applications and patches)
# swlist -lfileset (more details about file systems)
# uname -a (hostname, model name, OS version etc)

Also another useful system information command:
# print_manifest

Re: Patch info

harry d brown jr — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:40:29 GMT

a hundred or so replies to answer?

This member has assigned points to 25 of 129 responses to his/her questions.

Re: Patch info

harry d brown jr — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:41:31 GMT

Of course not that it matters.