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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

How to Download and Add a Signed Patch (smpatch)

  1. Make sure you have completed the preparation tasks before downloading and adding a signed patch to your system. For more information, see Preparation for Managing Signed Patches with smpatch Command (Task Map).

  2. Become superuser.

  3. Solaris 9 system only – Notify the Solaris Management Console server that the PatchPro packages were added to the system.


    # /etc/init.d/init.wbem stop
# /etc/init.d/init.wbem start

  4. Download a signed patch or patches from the SunSolve web site.


    # smpatch download -i patch-ID

Requested patches:

    patch-ID

Downloading the requested patches

/var/sadm/spool/patch-ID.jar has been validated.

For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spool

  5. Add the signed patch.


    # smpatch add -i patch-ID

Examples—Downloading and Adding a Signed Patch (smpatch)

The following example shows how to download and add a signed patch with the smpatch command on a Solaris 9 system.


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

Type /? for help, pressing <enter> accepts the default denoted by [ ]
Please enter a string value for: password :: xxx
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.


        Requested patches:
                111711-01

        Downloading the requested patches ...


For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spool.
# smpatch add -i 111711-01
Authenticating as user: root

Type /? for help, pressing <enter> accepts the default denoted by [ ]
Please enter a string value for: password :: xxx
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 ...
                Installing patch 111711-01
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The following example shows how to download and add patch 105081–45 with the smpatch command on a Solaris 2.6 system. 


# smpatch download -i 105407-01

Requested patches:

    105407-01

Downloading the requested patches



/var/sadm/spool/105407-01.jar has been validated.

For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spool
# smpatch add -i 105407-01

On machine "earth/172.20.27.27" ...


Installing patch 105407-01 ...
Purging /var/sadm/spool/105407-01
/var/sadm/spool/README.txt has been moved to 
/var/sadm/spool/patchproSequester

The following example shows how to download and add patch 107081–45 with the smpatch command on a Solaris 7 system. This patch has two patch dependencies, which are automatically downloaded and verified.


# smpatch download -i 107081-45

Requested patches:

    107081-45

Downloading the requested patches

The following patches were added due to patch dependencies:
    108376-37
    107656-09

/var/sadm/spool/108376-37.jar has been validated.

/var/sadm/spool/107656-09.jar has been validated.

/var/sadm/spool/107081-45.jar has been validated.

For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spool
# smpatch add -i 108376-37 -i 107656-09 -i 107081-45

On machine "venus/172.20.27.26" ...

Installing patch 108376-37 ...
Installing patch 107656-09 ...
Installing patch 107081-45 ...
Purging /var/sadm/spool/108376-37
Purging /var/sadm/spool/107656-09
Purging /var/sadm/spool/107081-45

The following example shows how to use the ftp command to get a signed Solaris 8 patch from the SunSolve Online web site and then use the smpatch add command to add the signed patch to the system.


# ftp sunsolve.sun.com
Connected to sunsolve.sun.com.
220-
220-Welcome to the SunSolve Online FTP server.
220-
220-Public users may log in as anonymous. 
.
.
.
Name (sunsolve.sun.com:root): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: xxx
230-
230-SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
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.230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd signed_patches
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get 112846-01.jar /var/sadm/spool/112846-01.jar
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 112846-01.jar (22524 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: /var/sadm/spool/112846-01 remote: 112846-01.jar
22613 bytes received in 0.065 seconds (341.70 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
# smpatch add -i 112846-01
On machine "earth/172.20.27.27" ...


Installing patch 112846-01 ...
Purging /var/sadm/spool/112846-01