looking for a script to check patches

[Danny Ramos_1]

hi guys,

how can i check for the patches installed on my system? would there be a script?

thanks,

danny

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi Danny,

There a few you can use, but they all revolve around the 'swlist' command. There is a large man page for it as well. Here are a couple of examples.

# swlist -l product
# swlist -a patch
# swlist -l patch

# swlist -l patch -a patch_state \*.\*,c=patch

HTH
Michael

[John Poff]

Hi Danny,

One other command to look at is the 'check_patches' command, but only if you are running 11.x. This command will check for patches that have been superseded and can be removed. It is a big help for managing the size of your /var/adm/sw directory, as the saved patches will eat up lots of room.

JP

[James Murtagh]

Hi Danny,

From 11.00 you can use a script named show_patches, normally located in /usr/contrib/bin. If you don't have it, these are the patches (no reboot required) :

11.00 PHCO_24347 (3*) or PHCO_27779 (latest 1*)

11i PHCO_24630 (3*) or PHCO_27780 (latest 1*)

It can various levels of patches or show active or superceded patches, i.e.

# ./show_patches -a

Active Patch
Patch Description
---------- -----------------------------------------
PHCO_24630 HP-UX Patch Tools
Regards,

James.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

you can also query individual patch existances ( whether superseded or superseding)

e.g.
swlist -l patch -a superseded_by PHSS_23467
^^
The superseded patch

swlist -l patch -a supersedes PHSS_25951
^^
The patch that has been superseded

Hope this helps!

Regards
Yogeeraj

[Telia BackOffice]

To cleanup the system after patching use :
# cleanup -c 1

BR,
Jannik