How to Download and Apply a Signed Patch to a Solaris System
Ensure that you have completed the preparation tasks before downloading and applying a signed patch to your system. For more information, see Downloading and Installing the Patch Management Tools (Task Map).
To download and apply a signed patch on a Solaris system, follow this procedure. Following the procedure are examples.
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Become superuser.
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Download one or more signed patches from the SunSolve Web site to your local system.
# smpatch download -i patch-ID -i patch-ID ... Requested patches: patch-ID patch-ID ... Downloading the requested patches /var/sadm/spool/patch-ID.jar has been validated. /var/sadm/spool/patch-ID.jar has been validated. ... For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spoolThis command also analyzes the system to determine the list of recommended patches to download.
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Apply the signed patches.
# smpatch add -i patch-ID -i patch-ID
Example—Downloading and Applying a Signed Patch That Has No Dependencies
This example shows how to download and apply patch 105407-01 by using 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
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Example—Downloading and Applying a Signed Patch That Has Dependencies
This example shows how to download and apply patch 107081-45 by using the smpatch command on a Solaris 7 system or a Solaris 8 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
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Example—Downloading and Applying a Signed Patch That Has No Dependencies to a Solaris 9 System
This example shows how to download and apply a signed patch by using 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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Example—Downloading and Applying a Signed Patch That Has Dependencies to a Solaris 9 System
This example shows how to download and apply patch 113434-06 by using the smpatch command on a Solaris 9 system. This patch has a patch dependency, which is automatically downloaded and verified.
# smpatch download -i 113434-06 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: 113434-06 Downloading the requested patches The following patches were added due to patch dependencies: 114482-02 For downloaded patch(es) see /var/sadm/spool. # smpatch add -1 114482-02 -i 113434-06 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 114482-02 Installing patch 113434-06 |
Example—Downloading and Applying a Signed Patch by Using ftp
This example shows how to use the ftp command to get a signed Solaris 8 patch from the SunSolve Online site. Then, the example shows how to use the smpatch add command to apply 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. ... 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 |
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