Thanks to the following for quick and helpful responses. Question repeated
at end.
Octave J. Orgeron, Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, John P Speno, Peter Stern, Simon
Millard,
Gerwin van Oene, Gerhard Nolte, Galama, Dagmar, Andrew Tolmie
Summary of responses:
Try to install a patch kit, if no patches are needed, you are at the level
Use setld -i or the dupatch utility to check the installed patches.
Run dupatch, choose Patch Tracking, List patch kit information as follows:
/usr/sbin/dupatch -track -type kit -nolog
have a look into /var/adm/patch/log/event.log and search for KITNAME,
ie. the line KITNAME><DUV40FAS0002-19991116> OSF440 means that PK 2 for
OSF V4.0f is installed.
Run setld -i | grep -i patch | grep installed. Will give installed patches,
but not the kit number.
Get sys_check from Compaq's service web site, it will tell you which patch
kits
have been installed.
Question was as follows:
> Running Digital UNIX V4.0D (Rev. 878) on DEC Alpha 4100 and am new to the
system.
> What is the best way to determine our current Patch level ? Am told it
must be at
> Patch kit 4 or higher to migrate our Oracle 7.3.4 DB to Oracle8i.
Thanks,
Darryl Milczarek
EMS, Phoenix, AZ
darryl.milczarek_at_emsusa.com
Received on Tue Jul 04 2000 - 22:26:03 NZST