Signed Patches Administration Guide for PatchPro 2.2

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