System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Examples—Removing a Signed Patch (smpatch)

The following example shows how to remove a signed patch on a system running the Solaris 9 release.


# /usr/sadm/bin/smpatch remove -- -i 111711-01
Authenticating as user: root

Type /? for help, pressing <enter> accepts the default denoted by [ ]
Please enter a string value for: password :: 
Loading Tool: com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from starbug
Login to starbug as user root was successful.
Download of com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from starbug was 
successful.

          On machine starbug ...
                Removing patch 111711-01

The following example shows how to remove a signed patch on a system running the Solaris 2.6 release.


# smpatch remove -i 105407-01

On machine "earth/172.20.27.27" ...

Removing patch 105407-01

Checking installed patches...

Backing out patch 105407-01...

Patch 105407-01 has been backed out.