How do I determine if installation of a depot requires a reboot

[Peter Kain]

I want to install the bundle ShadowPassword.
The bundle contains 20 patches as well as the
product.

I now know that only 1 of the 20 patches
require a reboot but lets assume you don't
know this.

From the command line I want to determine if
the package requires a reboot (I know that I
can get this information via interactive
swlist or swinstall under product desc)

I also want to know which patch requires the
reboot since may already have it installed.

What I came up seems overly complex, anyone
have a better way?

swlist -v -l fileset -s /tmp/ShadowPassword_B.01.00.00_HP-UX_B.11.11_32+64.depot | grep -e "# PH" -e is_reboot | uniq
...
# PHCO_28194
is_reboot false
# PHNE_23502
is_reboot true
# PHSS_26492
is_reboot false
# PHSS_26493
is_reboot false

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

How about

swlist -l fileset -v @ hostname:/path/to/depot | grep reboot | grep true

If you get *anything* back then it's a reboot bundle/product/patch
Doesn't matter if you get one OR many - it's *still* a reboot.

HTH,
Jeff

[Chapaya]

Hi ,

If you install PHKL patches , reboot is required .
Patches like PHNE & PHSS usualy dont need reboot .

Bye ,
Eran.

[Steven E. Protter]

i have a simple method.

swinstall -s /full_path_of_depot \*
fail=$?

if [ $fail -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Install failed restart may be needed"
else
echo "Install successful."
fi


The install will fail kicking a specific error code. You can trap that and take appropriate action.

SEP

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

Perhaps the easiest way. When you extract the downloaded patch file you get two files, one .depot and one .text. In the .test file you can find information about the patch, also if reboot is needed.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

My way of doing is not much different than yours. Except I check for the attribute is_reboot.

For ex.,
swlist -l fileset -a is_reboot -s /mydepot/krng

# PHKL_27750
PHKL_27750.CORE2-KRN true
PHKL_27750.CORE2-KRN true
# PHKL_27766
PHKL_27766.CORE2-KRN true
PHKL_27766.CORE2-KRN true
# RandomNumGen
RandomNumGen.RNG-DKRN false
RandomNumGen.RNG-DKRN false
RandomNumGen.RNG-KRN true
RandomNumGen.RNG-KRN true

-Sri

[sam_111 · Accepted solution]

I use SAM for all these. It gives which patch needs reboot.

I think the way you did is the best. It is almost the same way which I tried. Hats off

regards,

sam

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

Patch basics:

Kernel Patches
PHKL_12345
installation usually causes reboots
Network Patches
PHNE_23456
installation may cause reboot
Commands Patches
PHCO_34567
no reboot
Subsystem Patches
PHSS_45678
usually no reboot

Thank you,

[Mike Stroyan]

You can use the -a option to look at just one attribute. You still need to use -l fileset because the is_reboot attribute is at the fileset level rather than the product level.

swlist -l fileset -a is_reboot -s \
/tmp/ShadowPassword_B.01.00.00_HP-UX_B.11.11_32+64.depot

[Peter Kain]

Thanks for all the answers. Sorry it took so long to assign points.