Problem Installing Patch 8.11.6.security.cr.patch

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there,

I am trying to install the sendmail.8.11.6.security.cr.patch file onto an HP-UX 10.20 system running sendmail 8.11.x. I downloaded the file onto the machine's /tmp directory. While logged onto the system as root I ran the command:

patch -p0 < /tmp/sendmail.8.11.6.security.cr.patch

The result of the above command was the following error message:

Hm... I can't seem to find a patch in there anywhere.

What am I doing wrong or missing? Thanks.

[Pete Randall]

Andrew,

Have you thought about trying HP's replacement binary? Location and complete instructions in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xdd549c196a4bd71190080090279cd0f9,00.html


Pete

[Pete Randall]

On second thought, it doesn't look like that covers 8.11.6.
Sorry.

[Helen French]

From the man pages of patch command:

The message ``Hmm...'' indicates that there is unprocessed text in the patch file and that patch is attempting to intuit whether there is a patch in that text and, if so, what kind of patch it is.

So, I would suggest you to download the file again, check the cksum output and try again.

[Andrew Kaplan]

I was doing some further investigating and there was mention of certain versions of patch, depending on the operating system, that cannot
handle the diffs with the file. HP-UX 10.20 was not mentioned. At the same time, there is GNU patch available as an alternative. I was thinking of downloading the package onto the system in question and using that file as opposed to the one that came with the operating system. Any thoughts?

[Michael Steele_2]

How are you ftp'ing the patch onto the 10.20 system? Is it coming from a Windows workstation? If so then use binary mode instead of ASCII.

There is a disconnect between Windows ASCII and Unix ASCII in regards to the EOL character which appears as ^M on the HP-UX side. So if you more your patch file and see ^M's at the end of all your lines then the patch file is corrupted and should be ftp'd again using binary mode.

[someone_4]

Hi andrew you are not the only one having that problem.
I cant update my 8.12.6 ..


Richard