I had asked if there was an "easy" way to determine which of the "jumbo"
patch sets had been applied to a particular machine.
Thanks to Gerhard Nolte, Richard Bemrose, Oisin McGuinness, Yaacov Fenster,
Russ Fish, Stephen Spaulding, Dr. Tom Blinn, Joe Fletcher, Paul A. Sand, and
John P. Spano for replying.
There are several ways, each of which tell you slightly different amounts
and types of information.
The first is to consult /var/adm/patch/event.log. That file gives a summary
of patches installed with the "dupatch" utility. The KITNAME> field in each
<RECORD> names the patch kit used for the install.
dupatch itself can display the same information. An option within the
program's menus allows this. Dupatch, however, warns that it is simply
naming which patch kits have records within event.log. All this means is
that *some* of the patches from that kit were installed. Others might not
have been, for various reasons. For example, dupatch (quite sensibly)
won't install patches for subsets that were not installed at the time the
patch kit was applied. The installer may also have specified that only
certain patches be installed. In short, check the logs in
/var/adm/patch/logs very carefully.
Another method is to used setld to list installed subsets. Patch subsets
show up there. Fine, but I'm really intereseted in the information in the
event.log: what "jumbo" patch was installed when by whom. However, a
setld listing is always useful, and when combined with other information
from the sys_check utility
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/IAS/sys_check/ ,
can be very useful for managing multiple systems.
Thanks and regards,
Frank
Received on Mon Jul 26 1999 - 14:10:46 NZST