Patch enquiry problem III

[Mr Alvin Lau]

After installing the patch to my system, I can view the file exist but not sure this action is completely and succesfully. Can anyone tell me how to verify ?? Thanks in advance !

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

You can always use the swlist command to look at the state of the patches, and other software, on your system.

A command like:

# swlist -l product -a state

Will list all products on the system and what state they are in. The state for all products and patches should always be "configured". If it is anything else, "installed" possibly, then the patch is probably not completely installed.

See 'man swlist' for more information.

[Michael Tully]

During the installation the system generates logs that can be found in /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log and swconfig.log files.

You can also use the 'swverify -v' command.

[Michael Tully]

There is also another command that can be used and that is 'check_patches -i' (if it is installed on your system. Check out:)

# whereis check_patches
check_patches: /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches /usr/contrib/man/man1m/check_patches.1m
# ll /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 29741 Jul 17 2000 /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
Using check_patches is - in my humble opinion - a very good way to keep the system "clean". Note however that it may give warnings even though nothing is wrong. A slight change to a configuration file implemented with a patch will give "filesize" warnings (it is possible to use "swmodify" to correct these changes, but I prefer not to use "swmodify" :-).

Regards,
Tom

[Denise Kent]

Using the check_patches is a good way to ensure all is well on the system, but make sure you have the latest check_patches patch installed, PHCO_24347, as an earlier patch gives checksum errors for PHKL_18543 which are false.

As mentioned above, swlist -l fileset -a state will also show all filesets are configured and if not use swconfig.

Kind regards
Denise